
Death comes to us sooner or later, so I will face the Lord Almighty calmly. But I want to tell you that we are not bandits and robbers as the Americans have accused us, but members of the revolutionary force that defended our mother country, the Philippines! Farewell! Long live the Republic! May our independence be born in the future. Long live the Philippines!
-Macario Sakay, hanged Sep 13, 1907