Note 3 — Chapter VIII · Did We Destroy a Republic?
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“The war satisfied us all that Aguinaldo would have been a small edition of Porfirio Diaz, and that the Filipino republic-that-might-have-been would have been, very decidedly, ‘a going concern,’ although Aguinaldo probably would have been able to say with a degree of accuracy, as Diaz might have said in Mexico for so many years, ‘The Republic? I am the Republic.’”—Blount, p. 292.