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 challenge to Asia is to discard the dry, meatless bone of mysticism and fatalism.

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.

Freedom is not just declared; it is exercised.

I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.

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.