Jose Rizal

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

It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice.

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

It's good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you badly.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.