13 Jose Rizal Quotes on History

Jose Rizal quotes on history

1. In the Middle Ages, everything bad was the work of the devil, everything good, the work of God. Today, the French see everything in reverse and blame the Germans for it.

5. Each one writes history according to his convenience.

7. Is it not sad, I said to my countrymen, that we have to learn from a foreigner about ourselves? Thanks to the German scholars we get accurate information about ourselves, and when everything in our country has been destroyed and we wish to verify the historical correctness of certain facts we shall have to come to Germany to search for these facts, in German museums and books!

8. The Philippines should be grateful to you if you would write a complete history of our country from an impartial point of view.. But don't expect thanks and laurels--crowns of flowers and laurels are the inventions of free people. But perhaps your children may gather the fruit of what the father planted.

17. Death has always been the first sign of European civilization when introduced in the Pacific.

41. Not all were asleep during the night of our forefathers!

49. And now gentlemen, you must have a national hero!

50. Under what clime or what skies, has tyranny claimed a nobler victim?

51. The choice of Rizal as a national hero was a master stroke by the Americans.

52. The first Filipino.

60. Rizal, Jose (1891, Ghent) El Filibusterismo (The Reign of Greed). English translation by Charles Derbyshire published 1912, Philippine Education Co., Manila.Etext available at Project Gutenberg

61. Rizal, Jose (1887, Berlin) Noli Me Tangere (The Social Cancer). English translation by Charles Derbyshire published 1912, Philippine Education Co., Manila.Etext available at Project Gutenberg

62. Mi ultimo adios (the original Spanish). First printing 1897, Hong Kong. Etext available at Project Gutenberg