Ferdinand Marcos

“I have Chinese blood in me... I am not ashamed to admit that perhaps the great leaders of our country all have Chinese blood.”

“Freedom is not just declared; it is exercised.”

“Little boys have amazing minds.”

“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.”

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

“My countrymen: we have reached a turning point in our history. The choice is yours. Shall we venture into this brave new world, bright with possibilities, or retreat to the safety of our familiar but sterile past? I am for crossing the frontier.”

“There are many things we do not want about the world. Let us not just mourn them. Let us change them.”

“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.”