Apolinario Mabini Quotes

Philippines, Leader
July 23, 1864 – May, 13, 1903.

Apolinario Mabini y Maranan was a Filipino revolutionary leader, educator, lawyer, and statesman who served first as a legal and constitutional adviser to the Revolutionary Government, and then as the first Prime Minister of the Philippines upon the establishment of the First Philippine Republic. He is regarded as the "utak ng himagsikan" or "brain of the revolution".

Also known as Educator, Lawyer

True honor is attained by teaching our minds to recognize truth, and training our hearts to love it.

Apolinario Mabini
- Love
- Truth
- Honor
Only he is truly a patriot who, whatever his post, high or low, tries to do the greatest possible good to his countrymen.

Apolinario Mabini
- Good
- Patriot
- Countrymen

Woe to the Revolution when the day comes, when the people, overburdened by contributions and consumed by abuses, turn to their enemies for salvation!

Apolinario Mabini
Like any other man, I hold to certain truths which rule and guide my conscience and which constitute my articles of faith. They enjoin me to believe that all authority over the people resides, by natural law, in the people themselves.

Apolinario Mabini
- Faith
- Law
- Authority
I joined the struggle in the belief that I was following the voice of the people; I quit it now for the same reason.

Apolinario Mabini
- People
- Voice
- Belief
I have no other balm to sweeten the bitterness of a harsh and melancholy life than the satisfaction given by the conviction of having always done what I believed to be my duty. God grant that I can say the same at the hour of my death.

Apolinario Mabini
- Life
- Duty
- Conviction
How shall we get foreigners to respect our women when we ourselves set the example of offending them? Can we Filipino men expect to be respected when our women are not?

Apolinario Mabini
- Women
- Respect
- Example
I have tried to be impartial. I have also tried to render judgment on events and not on particular individuals. But in adjudging the Revolution, I could do no less than pass judgment on the man who did not recoil from crime in order to embody the Revolution in himself from beginning to end.

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While pride sometimes instills courage and perseverance in the pursuit of hazardous enterprises, it is always an evil counsellor in determining whether a proposed objective is expedient or not.

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I was not fated to be a priest. The true minister of God is not one who wears a cassock, but everyone who proclaims His glory by good works of service to the greatest possible number of His creatures.

Apolinario Mabini
- Service
- Glory
- Priest