“It is useless to think of what would have happened.”

“It's stupidity to continue using a method which is proven to be useless [and] fruitless. It's a waste of manpower.”

“We always depend on the government to do this and that for us. No government can do that. Always it is with the cooperation of the people. The people must cooperate with the government. The government will think of ways to improve the welfare of the people, but the people will have to help themselves.”

“The people who criticize me are ignorant of what history is, because the very fact that the student of history chooses what to include and what not to include in his work, is proof that history is never objective.”

“Politeness is good only in social relations, because to be polite in literary or academic [matters] would be to be dishonest. Ipinasa mo out of politeness? Our of kwan to the father or...No!”

“What history is not biased? Show me a historian, a real historian who is not biased!...History is never objective.”

“You're not sure that you will have all the documents. That is why the conclusions in history is not final.”