Ferdinand Marcos Quotes

Author Image

Ferdinand Marcos

Profession : Statesman

Birth : September 11, 1917

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.

Ferdinand Marcos

The permissiveness of society must be balanced with authoritativeness.

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

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.

Ferdinand Marcos

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

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

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

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

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

Ferdinand Marcos

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.

Ferdinand Marcos

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.

Ferdinand Marcos

Nobody is impervious to misfortune.

Ferdinand Marcos

Freedom is not just declared; it is exercised.

Ferdinand Marcos

Filipino talents and skills are becoming ubiquitous in many parts of the world. Returning Filipino workers have helped improve our skills and technological standards.

Ferdinand Marcos

To preserve our sovereign integrity, we must prove to them nobody need tell us how to hold a clean and democratic election.

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 do not care how brave a president is; I do not care how many medals he may wear. I do not care how well trained his guards may be. If he violates the will of the people, he shall be eliminated.

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

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