History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.
The permissiveness of society must be balanced with authoritativeness.
What we ask of the developed countries is to let the Third World find a third way.
President Reagan has no enemies in the Phillipines.
I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
I have been called brave in my time, but brave as I may have been against foreign invaders, I have no heart to shed Filipino blood.
Little boys have amazing minds.
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.
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.
These statements about torture, about alleged misuse of power and things like that, insulted the Filipinos more than their leader because it was made to appear as if Filipinos would tolerate a leader who would torture his own people, who would utilize his executive prerogatives for abuses.
For us, overseas employment addresses two major problems: unemployment and the balance of payments position.
The primary problem in many modernizing societies is not liberty but the creation of a legitimate public order. Men may, of course, have order without liberty, but they cannot have liberty without order.
The challenge to Asia is to discard the dry, meatless bone of mysticism and fatalism.
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.
We dare not supress thoughts, but when they are expressed through violence, like the idea that power comes from the barrel of a gun, they must be dealt with and met accordingly.
There is a standard joke in the family. Probably we should go into selling second-hand shoes.
I am ashamed to run against a lady. It's demeaning, very degrading. I have always refused to argue with a lady.
The U.S. State Department has a consistent record of error in the assessment of Asian situations and judging Red Chinese intentions.
The challenge to America is to extend to Asia the defensive shield of American power in forms consonant with Asian freedom and self-respect.
I can understand the Cultural Revolution of Mao Tse-tung.
