Routine is a declivity down which many governments slide, and routine says that freedom of the press is dangerous.
There can be no tyrants where there are no slaves.
He who does not love his own language is worse than an animal and smelly fish.
Spain, must we some day tell Filipinas that thou hast no ear for her woes and that if she wishes to be saved she must redeem herself?
While a people preserves its language; it preserves the marks of liberty.
If the Philippines must remain under the control of Spain, they will necessarily have to be transformed in a political sense, for the course of their history and the needs of their inhabitants so require.