“When a people holds onto its language, it holds onto a semblance of freedom, like a man who holds onto his independence… — José Rizal Copy Share Image
“Countrymen: I have given proofs, as well as the best of you, of desiring liberty for our country, and I continue to… — José Rizal Copy Share Image
“When a people is denied light, home, freedom, justice, all the good things without which life is not possible, and which constitute… — José Rizal Copy Share Image
I have observed that the prosperity or misery of each people is in direct proportion to its liberties or its prejudices and,… — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
It is probable that England will look favorably upon the independence of the Philippines, for it will open their ports to her… — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
Routine is a declivity down which many governments slide, and routine says that freedom of the press is dangerous. — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
Why independence? If the slaves of today will be the tyrants of tomorrow. — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
If the Philippines secure their independence after heroic and stubborn conflicts, they can rest assured that neither England, nor Germany, nor France,… — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
Our liberty will not be secured at the sword's point... We must secure it by making ourselves worthy of it. And when… — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
While a people preserves its language; it preserves the marks of liberty. — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
“O, in the solitude of those mountains I feel free, free as the air, like a light blasting unharnessed through space. A… — José Rizal Copy Share Image
My countrymen, I have given proofs that I am one most anxious for liberties for our country, and I am still desirous… — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
A God who chastises our lack of faith, our vices, the little esteem in which we hold dignity and the civic virtues.… — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
“What said those two souls communicating through the language of the eyes, more perfect than that of the lips, the language given to the… — José Rizal Copy Share Image
“What was exchanged in the language of their eyes, more perfect than their lips, the language afforded the soul so that no sound disturbs… — José Rizal Copy Share Image
The Filipino embraces civilization and lives and thrives in every clime, in contact with every people. — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
He who does not know how to look back at where he came from will never get to his destination. — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
He who does not love his own language is worse than an animal and smelly fish. — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
“He would have admired one of those fantastic visions, those magic apparitions one sometimes sees in the great theaters of Europe, in which the… — José Rizal Copy Share Image
“The glory of saving a country doesn't mean having to use the measures that contributed to its ruin!” — José Rizal Copy Share Image
Your enemies hate you more than they hate your ideas. Should you want a project to be undone propose it. Even if it were… — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
“When a people holds onto its language, it holds onto a semblance of freedom, like a man who holds onto his independence when he… — José Rizal Copy Share Image
“Countrymen: I have given proofs, as well as the best of you, of desiring liberty for our country, and I continue to desire it.… — José Rizal Copy Share Image
“In the Philippines you are not considered to be honorable unless you have been to jail.” — José Rizal Copy Share Image
