Top 30 Ferdinand Marcos Quotes

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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trust

I was deposed by a coup d’etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
Ferdinand Marcos
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.
Ferdinand Marcos
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.
Ferdinand Marcos
Whatever be the challenges, whatever be the obstacles before us, I say to you as I say to everybody else that we will overcome.
Ferdinand Marcos
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.
Ferdinand Marcos
So long as I’m president, communism will not thrive here.
Ferdinand Marcos
The challenge to America is to extend to Asia the defensive shield of American power in forms consonant with Asian freedom and self-respect.
Ferdinand Marcos
There is a standard joke in the family. Probably we should go into selling second-hand shoes.
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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.
Ferdinand Marcos
We have no quarrel with a policy that seeks to support human rights.
Ferdinand Marcos
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
President Reagan has no enemies in the Phillipines.
Ferdinand Marcos
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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Little boys have amazing minds.
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To preserve our sovereign integrity, we must prove to them nobody need tell us how to hold a clean and democratic election.
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Freedom is not just declared; it is exercised.
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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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I am not afraid to go to jail.
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What we ask of the developed countries is to let the Third World find a third way.
Ferdinand Marcos
I am ashamed to run against a lady. It’s demeaning, very degrading. I have always refused to argue with a lady.
Ferdinand Marcos
It is not true that I dictate what should be done. There is a dialogue.
Ferdinand Marcos
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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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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I’ll take my destiny, whatever that may be, but I’m going to fight for my dignity and my honor.
Ferdinand Marcos
Let us not be so naive as to think that revolution is just a matter of social or economic discontent.
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I can feel it in my bones that no matter what we do, even if we do not do anything, the revolutionary government of Madame Cory Aquino will collapse.
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The challenge to Asia is to discard the dry, meatless bone of mysticism and fatalism.
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Nobody is impervious to misfortune.
Ferdinand Marcos
Once a champion, always a champion.
Ferdinand Marcos
If it were true that special favors were given to some of these people because they are my cronies, then they should still be here, and they should be wealthy. But who are these cronies? If there be any cronies in government, point them out, and we will investigate.
Ferdinand Marcos