History Quote by Ferdinand Marcos

“History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.”

Ferdinand Marcos

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I am not afraid to go to jail.

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President Reagan has no enemies in the Phillipines.

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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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The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.

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The challenge to Asia is to discard the dry, meatless bone of mysticism and fatalism.

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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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I can understand the Cultural Revolution of Mao Tse-tung.

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Once a champion, always a champion.

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My countrymen: we have reached a turning point in our history. The choice is yours. Shall we venture into this brave new world, bright…

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I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder?

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Of what good is democracy if it is not for the poor?

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Nobody is impervious to misfortune.

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