Dying people don't need medicine, the ones who remain do.

Little boys have amazing minds.

Elect me as your congressman today, I promise you an Ilocano president in 20 years.

It is easier to run a revolution than a government.

It is not a choice of life, it is a choice of death. If this is life, I'd rather die.

Once a champion, always a champion.

I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder?

History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.

Of what good is democracy if it is not for the poor?

There are many things we do not want in this world. Let us not just mourn them; let us change them.

Man is multiplied by the number of languages he possesses and speaks.

A man works for an object. Remove that object and you reduce him into inaction.

There can be no tyrants where there are no slaves.

What is death to me? I have sown the seeds others will reap.

Each one writes history according to his convenience.

It is not the criminals who arouse the hatred of others, but the honest men.

The glory of saving a country is not for him who has contributed to its ruin.

Cowardice rightly understood begins with selfishness and ends with shame.

Why independence? If the slaves of today will be the tyrants of tomorrow.