While a people preserves its language; it preserves the marks of liberty.

Justice is the foremost virtue of the civilizing races. It subdues the barbarous nations, while injustice arouses the weakest.

Wealth brings with it refinement, the spirit of conservation, while poverty inspires adventurous ideas, the desire to change things, and has little care for life.

Orientals, and the Malays in particular, are a sensitive people: delicacy of sentiment is predominant with them.

The Filipino embraces civilization and lives and thrives in every clime, in contact with every people.

The people no longer has confidence in its former protectors, now its exploiters and executioners. The masks have fallen.