José Rizal Quotes

I have observed that the prosperity or misery of each people is in direct proportion to its libertie...

He who does not love his own language is worse than an animal and smelly fish.

For myself I think that one wrong does not right the other, and forgiveness cannot be won with usele...

I can concede that the government has no knowledge of the people, but I believe the people know less...

I honor the father in his son, not the son in his father. Each one receives a reward or punishment f...

What said those two souls communicating through the language of the eyes, more perfect than that of ...

Experience has everywhere shown us, and especially in the Philippines, that the classes which are be...

The batteries are gradually becoming charged, and if the prudence of the government does not provide...

History does not record in its annals any lasting domination exercised by one people over another, o...

As God has not made anything useless in this world, as all beings fulfill obligations or a role in t...

....let her be loved not only for her beauty and amiable character, but also for her strength of min...

No one ceases to be a man, no one forfeits his rights to civilization merely by being more or less u...

Your enemies hate you more than they hate your ideas. Should you want a project to be undone propose...

Why independence, if the slaves of today will be the tyrants of tomorrow?

Pure intuitive faith differs as much from fanaticism as fire from smoke, or music from mere noise; t...

If the Philippines secure their independence after heroic and stubborn conflicts, they can rest assu...

I do not write for this generation. I am writing for other ages. If this could read me, they would b...

Routine is a declivity down which many governments slide, and routine says that freedom of the press...

I may be what my enemies desire me to be, yet never an accusation are they able to hurl against me w...

Since it is necessary to grant six million Filipinos their rights, so that they may be in fact Spani...

He who does not know how to look back at where he came from will never get to his destination.

We young Filipinos are trying to make over a nation and must not halt in our march, but from time to...

If the Philippines must remain under the control of Spain, they will necessarily have to be transfor...

My countrymen, I have given proofs that I am one most anxious for liberties for our country, and I a...

One should remember that where nobody flees, there is no pursuer: that where there are no little fis...

I die without seeing the dawn brighten over my native land. You who have it to see, welcome it ... a...

Countrymen: I have given proofs, as well as the best of you, of desiring liberty for our country, an...

Our liberty will not be secured at the sword's point... We must secure it by making ourselves worthy...

The government that governs from afar absolutely requires that the truth and the facts reach its kno...

When there is in nature no fixed condition, how much less must there be in the life of a people, bei...

To doubt God is to doubt one's own conscience, and in consequence, it would be to doubt everything; ...

One only dies once, and if one does not die well, a good opportunity is lost and will not present it...

We want the happiness of the Philippines, but we want to obtain it through noble and just means. If ...

The example could encourage others who only fear to start.

I have to believe much in God because I have lost my faith in man.

The youth is the hope of our future.

How long have you been away from the country?" Laruja asked Ibarra."Almost seven years.""Then you ha...

Wealth brings with it refinement, the spirit of conservation, while poverty inspires adventurous ide...

It is probable that England will look favorably upon the independence of the Philippines, for it wil...