In The Time Of Darkest Defeat, Victory

War Should Never Be Entered Upon Until Every Agency Of Peace Has Failed.

I Went Down On My Knees And Prayed To Almighty God For Light And Guidance And One Night Late It Came To Me This Way. We Could Not Leave (the Philippines) To Themselves-they Were Unfit For Self-government-and They Would Soon Have Anarchy And Misrule Over There Worse Than Spain's Was. There Was Nothing Left For Us To Do But Take Them All And Educate The Filipinos, And Uplift And Christianize Them.

The More Profoundly We Study This Wonderful Book, And The More Closely We Observe Its Divine Precepts, The Better Citizens We Will Become And The Higher Will Be Our Destiny As A Nation.

By The Blessings Of Heaven I Mean To Live And Die, Please God, In The Faith Of My Mother.

Illiteracy Must Be Banished From The Land If We Shall Attain That High Destiny As The Foremost Of The Enlightened Nations Of The World Which, Under Providence, We Ought To Achieve.