Filipino - Statesman | September 11, 1917 - September 28, 1989
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.
Ferdinand Marcos
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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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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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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.
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It is not true that I dictate what should be done. There is a dialogue.
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History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.
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For us, overseas employment addresses two major problems: unemployment and the balance of payments position.
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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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Let us not be carried away by the undisguised agitations of leaders who virtually asked people to take the law into their own hands.
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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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We have no quarrel with a policy that seeks to support human rights.
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President Reagan has no enemies in the Phillipines.
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