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.
From Ferdinand Marcos
Once a champion, always a champion.
The challenge to America is to extend to Asia the defensive shield of American power in forms consonant with Asian freedom and self-respect.
The permissiveness of society must be balanced with authoritativeness.
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.
Nobody is impervious to misfortune.
I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder?
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.
Freedom is not just declared; it is exercised.
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