Ferdinand Marcos Quotes:
I was deposed by a coup d’etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
Ferdinand Marcos
There are many things we do not want about the world. Let us not just mourn them. Let us change them.
Ferdinand Marcos
The challenge to America is to extend to Asia the defensive shield of American power in forms consonant with Asian freedom and self-respect.
Ferdinand Marcos
The challenge to Asia is to discard the dry, meatless bone of mysticism and fatalism.
Ferdinand Marcos
Little boys have amazing minds.
Ferdinand Marcos
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.
Ferdinand Marcos
We do not postpone the participation of the lower classes of our people in the profits of economic enterprise, and in other countries, they do postpone it. In the long run, I think our policy is better, and we stand by it.
Ferdinand Marcos
I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder?
Ferdinand Marcos
President Reagan has no enemies in the Phillipines.
Ferdinand Marcos
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.
Ferdinand Marcos
I am not afraid to go to jail.
Ferdinand Marcos
I’ll take my destiny, whatever that may be, but I’m going to fight for my dignity and my honor.
Ferdinand Marcos
There is a standard joke in the family. Probably we should go into selling second-hand shoes.
Ferdinand Marcos
I will fight to the last breath, even though my family cowers in terror in the palace.
Ferdinand Marcos
I can feel it in my bones that no matter what we do, even if we do not do anything, the revolutionary government of Madame Cory Aquino will collapse.
Ferdinand Marcos
History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.
Ferdinand Marcos
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.
Ferdinand Marcos
How can I wage political battle against a widow who does not mean anyone any harm except only the president himself?
Ferdinand Marcos