Carlos P. Romulo

A strengthened national spirit can provide the motive power to rise our people from the depths and... pour new life and vigor…

— Carlos P. Romulo

“Don Alejandro cut in with advice I have never forgotten. "It is only when a man knows reason is not on his…

— Carlos P. Romulo

“From this time on, my life would be written in headlines, but I am not concerned with them. It was the marginal…

— Carlos P. Romulo

“I am a Filipino born to freedom, and I shall not rest until freedom shall have been added unto my inheritance—for myself…

— Carlos P. Romulo

I feel like a Gold surrounded by Silver!

— Carlos P. Romulo

“The presidency of the United Nations was not thrust upon me overnight. I had to grow up to the measurements it demanded…

— Carlos P. Romulo

“For my grandchildren . . . and all children—this book is written with hopes of the time to come, when no child…

— Carlos P. Romulo

“To do my best, to increase and never lessen my country's pride was the underlying motivation of all I might attempt. ...…

— Carlos P. Romulo

Never forget, Americans, that yours is a spiritual country. Yes, I know you're a practical people. Like others, I've marveled at your…

— Carlos P. Romulo

“For freedom would not be easy. It never is. It would be more difficult for the Philippines than for many countries, because…

— Carlos P. Romulo

“I knew nothing at all of the art of diplomacy, which I have since diagnosed as the ability to make the nastiest…

— Carlos P. Romulo

Our world is constantly in change and the great change is always toward freedom. When we speak of freedom we speak of…

— Carlos P. Romulo

“Mine was a good race. Ours was a good country. I loved every foot of it that I knew...I had been reared…

— Carlos P. Romulo

“You might wonder that I who who have served you in the field of diplomacy should set so much store by the…

— Carlos P. Romulo

“A successful ambassador has to bring the bacon home without spilling the beans.”

— Carlos P. Romulo

“Pierre J. Huss pleased me with his comment: "Thanks to him (Romulo) the United Nations has 'independence' in its Charter, one of…

— Carlos P. Romulo

Brotherhood is the very price and condition of man's survival.

— Carlos P. Romulo

“Agreements in the organizations of world power are never reached on the floor. They are made in the delegates' lounge and corridors…

— Carlos P. Romulo

I was convinced that luck was a matter of knowing what one wanted and then being willing to work to make the…

— Carlos P. Romulo

Among the lessons learned in my lifetime is the ease with which corruption can enter high places in the mask of friendship.…

— Carlos P. Romulo

All in all, it is a good life we are living, in a good world filled with good friends.

— Carlos P. Romulo

“One need not bellow to be believed. Ears seal automatically against anger, and unreason takes over when an argument becomes a tirade.”

— Carlos P. Romulo

“This proved to me that no matter how diametrically opposed your views may be from another's if you can succeed in knowing…

— Carlos P. Romulo

There should be no inferiors and no superiors for true world friendship.

— Carlos P. Romulo

“I am a Filipino, inheritor of a glorious past, hostage to the uncertain future. As such, I must prove equal to a…

— Carlos P. Romulo