To Live Is To Be Among Men,

For Myself I Think That One Wrong Does Not Right The Other, And Forgiveness Cannot Be Won With Useless Tears Or Alms To The Church.

Each One Writes History According To His Convenience.

I Do Not Write For This Generation. I Am Writing For Other Ages. If This Could Read Me, They Would Burn My Books, The Work Of My Whole Life. On The Other Hand, The Generation Which Interprets These Writings Will Be An Educated Generation; They Will Understand Me And Say: Not All Were Asleep In The Nighttime Of Our Grandparents.

If The Philippines Secure Their Independence After Heroic And Stubborn Conflicts, They Can Rest Assured That Neither England, Nor Germany, Nor France, And Still Less Holland, Will Dare To Take Up What Spain Has Been Unable To Hold.

He Who Does Not Know How To Look Back At Where He Came From Will Never Get To His Destination.