One of the best exemplars of nationalist thinking.

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

Rizal is the spirit of contradiction; a soul that dreads the revolution, although deep down desires it.

The first Filipino.

Sometimes people mistake the way I talk for what I am thinking.

Let every man honor and love the land of his birth and the race from which he springs and keep their memory green. It is a pious and honorable duty. But let us…

But we [Americans] are as other men, exactly. Of one blood, one species, one brain, one figure, one fundamental set of collective instincts, one solitary body …