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I have observed that the prosperity or misery of each people is in direct proportion to its liberties or its prejudices and, accordingly, to the sacrifices or the selfishness of its forefathers. -Juan Crisostomo Ibarra

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Jose Rizal
Age: 35 †
Born: 1861
Born: June 19
Died: 1896
Died: December 30
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Ignorance is servitude, because as a man thinks, so he is a man who does not think for himself and allows himself to be guided by the thought of another is like the beast led by a halter.
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Oh how beautiful to fall to give you flight, to die to give you life, to rest under your sky and in your enchanted land forever sleep.
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Your enemies hate you more than they hate your ideas. Should you want a project to be undone propose it. Even if it were as useful as a bishop's mire it would be rejected. Once you are defeated let the humblest-looking among you sponsor it and your enemies to humble you will approve it.
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Hold high the brow serene, O youth, where now you stand Let the bright sheen Of your grace be seen, Fair hope of my fatherland!
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Man works for an object. Remove that object and you reduce him into inaction.
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While a people preserves its language it preserves the marks of liberty.
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What is death to me? I have sown the seeds others will reap.
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The tyranny of some is possible only through the cowardice of others.
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No one blames a pilot who takes refuge in port when the storm begins to blow. It is not cowardice to duck under a bullet what is wrong is to defy it only to fall and never rise again.
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But because their ancestors were men of righteousness, shall we consent to the abuses of their degenerate descendants? Because they did us a great good, would we be guilty if we prevented them from doing us evil?
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Virtue lies in the middle ground.
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I go where there are no slaves, hangmen or oppressors where faith does not kill where the one who reigns is God.
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Friar! What a strange name. I don't remember having created such a thing!
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Tomorrow at 7, I shall be shot but I am innocent of the crime of rebellion. I am going to die with a tranquil conscience.
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Death has always been the first sign of European civilization when introduced in the Pacific.
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Let us not ask for miracles, let us not ask for concern with what is good for the country of him who comes as a stranger to make his fortune and leave afterwards.
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Travel is a caprice in childhood, a passion in youth, a necessity in manhood, and an elegy in old age.
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One only dies once, and if one does not die well, a good opportunity is lost and will not present itself again.
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I don't see why I should bow my head when I could hold it high, or place it in the hands of my enemies when I can defeat them.
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Genius has no country. It blossoms everywhere. Genius is like the light, the air. It is the heritage of all.
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