Ferdinand Marcos Quotes
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These statements about torture, about alleged misuse of power and things like that, insulted the Filipinos more than their leader because it was made to appear as if Filipinos would tolerate a leader who would torture his own people, who would utilize his executive prerogatives for abuses.
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I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder?
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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.
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The U.S. State Department has a consistent record of error in the assessment of Asian situations and judging Red Chinese intentions.
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I will fight to the last breath, even though my family cowers in terror in the palace.
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In the Philippines, the host should always be willing to defer to the wishes of the guest.
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I have Chinese blood in me... I am not ashamed to admit that perhaps the great leaders of our country all have Chinese blood.
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We have no quarrel with a policy that seeks to support human rights.
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For us, overseas employment addresses two major problems: unemployment and the balance of payments position.
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We do not postpone the participation of the lower classes of our people in the profits of economic enterprise, and in other countries, they do postpone it. In the long run, I think our policy is better, and we stand by it.
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There is a standard joke in the family. Probably we should go into selling second-hand shoes.
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Let us not be so naive as to think that revolution is just a matter of social or economic discontent.
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The permissiveness of society must be balanced with authoritativeness.
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How can I wage political battle against a widow who does not mean anyone any harm except only the president himself?
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I can understand the Cultural Revolution of Mao Tse-tung.
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What we ask of the developed countries is to let the Third World find a third way.
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I am not afraid to go to jail.
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I have listened to you, to our people. I have heard your doubts, your anxieties, nay, outright opposition to the lifting of Martial Law. And I have prayed to the Almighty for guidance. And it is after deliberate, sober judgment and soul-searching that I come before you and say, it is now time to terminate martial law.
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I was reminded as I was reviewing my life, that I have been in too many conflicts, too many wars, political battles, military battles, civil strifes in government. And always one lesson stands out and that is, those whom you fight most passionately often turn out to be your best friends.
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There are many things we do not want about the world. Let us not just mourn them. Let us change them.
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Filipino talents and skills are becoming ubiquitous in many parts of the world. Returning Filipino workers have helped improve our skills and technological standards.
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The challenge to Asia is to discard the dry, meatless bone of mysticism and fatalism.
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The foundation upon which our nation stands is much richer and firmer than the sympathies that may occasionally divide us. And we never know this more truly than in Christmas time. In good times or in bad, under clear skies or under the shadow of uncertainty, the Christmas message is the imperishable one of joy, hope and brotherhood.
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America must realize, there are conditions she must accept in Asia. The first is a diversity of Asian cultures, governments, economic and political systems; the second, that to run against the tide of Asian nationalism is worse than impractical - it is also highly dangerous.