Filipino - Statesman | September 11, 1917 - September 28, 1989
I'll take my destiny, whatever that may be, but I'm going to fight for my dignity and my honor.
Ferdinand Marcos
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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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Whatever be the challenges, whatever be the obstacles before us, I say to you as I say to everybody else that we will overcome.
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My life has been devoted to the upliftment of the Filipino by reestablishing his identity and dignity.
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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.
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The challenge to America is to extend to Asia the defensive shield of American power in forms consonant with Asian freedom and self-respect.
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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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Nobody is impervious to misfortune.
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I would like to see whether my supposed successors can really operate the government without causing a crisis.
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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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I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder?
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We dare not supress thoughts, but when they are expressed through violence, like the idea that power comes from the barrel of a gun, they must be dealt with and met accordingly.
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