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Ferdinand Marcos [1917-1989] Filipino

Rank: 101
Statesman, Former President of the Philippines

Ferdinand Emmanuel Edralin Marcos, Sr. was a Filipino lawyer, politician, World War II veteran and kleptocrat who was President of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986. He ruled as a dictator under martial law from 1972 until 1981.

History, Alone, Amazing, Change, Independence, Leadership, Society

Quote	Tags	Rank
There are many things we do not want about the world. Let us not just mourn them. Let us change them.	Change	101
I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder?	History	102
The permissiveness of society must be balanced with authoritativeness.	Society	103
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.		104
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.	Alone, Leadership	105
The challenge to Asia is to discard the dry, meatless bone of mysticism and fatalism.		106
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.		107
History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.	History	108
Once a champion, always a champion.		109
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.	Independence	110
Nobody is impervious to misfortune.		111
Little boys have amazing minds.	Amazing	112
I can understand the Cultural Revolution of Mao Tse-tung.		113
What we ask of the developed countries is to let the Third World find a third way.		114
I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.		115
Freedom is not just declared; it is exercised.		116
The challenge to America is to extend to Asia the defensive shield of American power in forms consonant with Asian freedom and self-respect.		117
The U.S. State Department has a consistent record of error in the assessment of Asian situations and judging Red Chinese intentions.		118

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