Quote #47
The glory of saving a country is not for him who has contributed to its ruin.
More from Jose Rizal
- The school of suffering tempers the spirit, the arena of combat strengthens the soul.
- Pure and spotless must the victim be if the sacrifice is to be acceptable.
- You must shatter the vase to spread its perfume, and smite the rock to get the spark.
- And now gentlemen, you must have a national hero!
- It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted in the field without becoming part of an edifice.
- Under what clime or what skies, has tyranny claimed a nobler victim?
- Why independence, if the slaves of today will be the tyrants of tomorrow?
- The choice of Rizal as a national hero was a master stroke by the Americans.