Ferdinand Marcos Quotes
-
Let us not be carried away by the undisguised agitations of leaders who virtually asked people to take the law into their own hands.
-
I do not care how brave a president is; I do not care how many medals he may wear. I do not care how well trained his guards may be. If he violates the will of the people, he shall be eliminated.
-
I am ashamed to run against a lady. It's demeaning, very degrading. I have always refused to argue with a lady.
-
Freedom is not just declared; it is exercised.
-
The primary problem in many modernizing societies is not liberty but the creation of a legitimate public order. Men may, of course, have order without liberty, but they cannot have liberty without order.
-
President Reagan has no enemies in the Phillipines.
-
I have been called brave in my time, but brave as I may have been against foreign invaders, I have no heart to shed Filipino blood.
-
To preserve our sovereign integrity, we must prove to them nobody need tell us how to hold a clean and democratic election.
-
My life has been devoted to the upliftment of the Filipino by reestablishing his identity and dignity.
-
I'll take my destiny, whatever that may be, but I'm going to fight for my dignity and my honor.
-
Little boys have amazing minds.
-
Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.
-
My countrymen: we have reached a turning point in our history. The choice is yours. Shall we venture into this brave new world, bright with possibilities, or retreat to the safety of our familiar but sterile past? I am for crossing the frontier.
-
My spirit will rise from the grave and the world shall know that I was right.
-
Once a champion, always a champion.
-
So long as I'm president, communism will not thrive here.
-
Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.
-
Nobody is impervious to misfortune.
-
I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
-
Whatever be the challenges, whatever be the obstacles before us, I say to you as I say to everybody else that we will overcome.
-
It is not true that I dictate what should be done. There is a dialogue.
-
The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.
-
Authority has to exist before it can be limited, and it is authority that is in scarce supply in those modernizing countries where government is at the mercy of alienated intellectuals, rambunctious colonels, and rioting students.
-
To write our constitution is for the past, the present, and the future to come together all at once in one single motion, in one single heave, one single cry. For we correct the errors of the past and chart a new course for the future, based on the experience of the present.