Jose Rizal Quotations

On love for Country

I have always loved my poor country and I am sure that I shall love her until death, if by chance men are unjust to me; and I shall enjoy the happy life, contented in the thought that all that I have suffered, my past, my present and my future, my life, my love, my pleasures, I have sacrificed all of these for love of her.

Happen, what may, I shall die blessing her and desiring the dawn of her redemption.

On love for native tongue

He who does not love his own language is worse than an animal and smelly fish.

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