President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo's statements regarding the victims of typhoon Katrina in Florida:

"The humanitarian team we are sending to the disaster-stricken territories in the United States is but a small contingent, but says it all for our great friendship and ties with the American people,"

"This is not only about helping alleviate pain and anguish but about two nations sharing the sacrifices for freedom and human dignity over more than a century,"

"The helping hand of the United States has always been among the first to serve disaster victims in the Philippines, and we shall always be first in appreciation for a long standing ally for human and political security,"


General Emilio Aguinaldo's 24 May 1898 proclamation:

"The Great North American nation, the cradle of genuine liberty, and therefore the friend of our people, oppressed and enslaved by the tyranny and despotism of its rulers, has come to us manifesting a protection as decisive as it is undoubtedly disinterested toward our inhabitants, considering us as sufficiently civilized and capable of governing for ourselves our unfortunate country. in order to maintain this high estimate granted us by the North American nation we should abominate all those deeds which tend to lower this opinion, which are pillage, theft, and all sorts of crimes relating to persons of property"

Source:
Quibuyen, A Nation Aborted. Ateneo de Manila University Press 1999