Quote #53

To echo the first Filipino, you get the Rizal you deserve. (alluding to Rizal's statement, 'You get the government you deserve')

More from Jose Rizal

  1. The first Filipino.
  2. One of the best exemplars of nationalist thinking.
  3. The choice of Rizal as a national hero was a master stroke by the Americans.
  4. Rizal is the spirit of contradiction; a soul that dreads the revolution, although deep down desires it.
  5. Under what clime or what skies, has tyranny claimed a nobler victim?
  6. A gem of a man. (Un perla de hombre.)
  7. And now gentlemen, you must have a national hero!
  8. His coming to the world is like the appearance of a rare comet, whose brilliance appears only every other century.

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