Ferdinand Marcos quote: "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."

My countrymen: we have reached a turning point in our history. The choice is yours. Shall we venture...
FERDINAND MARCOS

Let us not be so naive as to think that revolution is just a matter of social or economic discontent...
FERDINAND MARCOS

I am not afraid to go to jail.
FERDINAND MARCOS

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

To write our constitution is for the past, the present, and the future to come together all at once ...
FERDINAND MARCOS

Filipino talents and skills are becoming ubiquitous in many parts of the world. Returning Filipino w...
FERDINAND MARCOS

Little boys have amazing minds.
FERDINAND MARCOS

The permissiveness of society must be balanced with authoritativeness.
FERDINAND MARCOS

What we ask of the developed countries is to let the Third World find a third way.
FERDINAND MARCOS

The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not...
FERDINAND MARCOS

Freedom is not just declared; it is exercised.
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...
FERDINAND MARCOS

Nobody is impervious to misfortune.
FERDINAND MARCOS

I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder?
FERDINAND MARCOS

I have been called brave in my time, but brave as I may have been against foreign invaders, I have n...
FERDINAND MARCOS

Whatever be the challenges, whatever be the obstacles before us, I say to you as I say to everybody ...
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

Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone...
FERDINAND MARCOS

I'll take my destiny, whatever that may be, but I'm going to fight for my dignity and my hon...
FERDINAND MARCOS

Once a champion, always a champion.
FERDINAND MARCOS

These statements about torture, about alleged misuse of power and things like that, insulted the Fil...
FERDINAND MARCOS

My friends in the opposition have forgotten that the constitution of the Philippines was amended in ...
FERDINAND MARCOS

Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little lo...
FERDINAND MARCOS

My life has been devoted to the upliftment of the Filipino by reestablishing his identity and dignit...
FERDINAND MARCOS

History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then writ...
FERDINAND MARCOS

The challenge to America is to extend to Asia the defensive shield of American power in forms conson...
FERDINAND MARCOS

America must realize, there are conditions she must accept in Asia. The first is a diversity of Asia...
FERDINAND MARCOS

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

In the Philippines, the host should always be willing to defer to the wishes of the guest.
FERDINAND MARCOS

I am ashamed to run against a lady. It's demeaning, very degrading. I have always refused to arg...
FERDINAND MARCOS

It's not really going to make anyone rich,
FERDINAND MARCOS

I would venture to say that if you want to buy dollars, they would be cheapest here because of the v...
FERDINAND MARCOS

We only sold a portion because, upon the advice of the World Bank, those carbon credits that we are ...
FERDINAND MARCOS

Frankly, if there's money to be made the province would have involved itself.
FERDINAND MARCOS

I can feel it in my bones that no matter what we do, even if we do not do anything, the revolutionar...
FERDINAND MARCOS

I can understand the Cultural Revolution of Mao Tse-tung.
FERDINAND MARCOS

Authority has to exist before it can be limited, and it is authority that is in scarce supply in tho...
FERDINAND MARCOS

President Reagan has no enemies in the Phillipines.
FERDINAND MARCOS

I never thought (the crowd) was that huge. When you realize you are not
alone, you grow strong...
FERDINAND MARCOS

You even have tourists visiting the site which is great. It would make people more conscious about t...
FERDINAND MARCOS

Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone...
FERDINAND EDRALIN MARCOS

Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone...
FERDINAND E. MARCOS

It is easier to run a revolution than a government.
FERDINAND E. MARCOS

It is not a choice of life, it is a choice of death. If this is life, I'd rather die.
FERDINAND E. MARCOS

They call me corrupt, frivolous. I am not at all privileged. Maybe the only privileged thing is my f...
IMELDA MARCOS

Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look...
IMELDA MARCOS

I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love ...
IMELDA MARCOS

If you know how rich you are, you are not rich. But me, I am not aware of the extent of my wealth. T...
IMELDA MARCOS

The Marcos era was the golden time for the Philippines. We had the lowest crime rate in the world in...
IMELDA MARCOS

It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god,...
IMELDA MARCOS

Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty...
IMELDA MARCOS

I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so petty.
IMELDA MARCOS

We practically own everything in the Philippines.
IMELDA MARCOS

I hardly can sleep. I feel that my target now is really to save Mother Earth for humanity. And it...
IMELDA MARCOS

I love everybody. One of the great things about me is that I have a very positive attitude.
IMELDA MARCOS

I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility.
IMELDA MARCOS

My dreams were always small and puny. All I ever needed was a little house with a little picket fenc...
IMELDA MARCOS

I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.
IMELDA MARCOS

They went into my closets looking for skeletons, but thank God, all they found were shoes, beautiful...
IMELDA MARCOS

I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.
IMELDA MARCOS

I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes. I had one thousand and sixty.
IMELDA MARCOS

I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so petty.
IMELDA MARCOS

“‘Nouveau riche’ is better than ‘no riche.’”
IMELDA MARCOS

I was born ostentatious. They will list my name in the dictionary someday. They will use 'Imeldific'...
IMELDA MARCOS

I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.
IMELDA MARCOS

When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers...
IMELDA MARCOS

Win or lose, we go shopping after the election.
IMELDA MARCOS

People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to ...
IMELDA MARCOS

Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of fami...
IMELDA MARCOS

Our war cries opened the deaf ears of the almighty government and its accomplices.
SUBCOMANDANTE MARCOS

Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes.
IMELDA MARCOS

The only rich person is a person who is rich in spirit. I have no money deposit. I have only beauty ...
IMELDA MARCOS

We are nothing if we walk alone; we are everything when we walk together in step with other dignifie...
SUBCOMANDANTE MARCOS

If you know how rich you are, you are not rich. But me, I am not aware of the extent of my wealth. T...
IMELDA MARCOS

There is no UnDo in real-life.
MARCOS FIGUEIRA

In Dog We Trust.
MARCOS FIGUEIRA

Ferdinand was a gold trader. He was a lawyer for mining companies. When he entered politics in l949,...
IMELDA MARCOS

They've listed my name in the dictionary - 'Imeldific' is used to mean ostentatious extr...
IMELDA MARCOS

Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look lik...
IMELDA MARCOS

I think that's a very kinky issue with the panties and bras. That's the thing that they will display...
IMELDA MARCOS

People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be s...
IMELDA MARCOS

I think it is incredible the way it has shaped up in the last few years. India has the courage to sh...
IMELDA MARCOS

Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific pla...
IMELDA MARCOS

I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not ver...
IMELDA MARCOS

It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.
IMELDA MARCOS

Marcos deserves it,
IMELDA MARCOS

If you know how much you've got, you probably haven't got much.
IMELDA MARCOS

It is terribly important to do certain things, such as wear overembroidered dresses. After all, the ...
IMELDA MARCOS

I really had no great love for shoes. I was a working First Lady; I was always in canvas shoes. I di...
IMELDA MARCOS

In that first blow to the deaf walls of those who have everything, the blood of our people, our bloo...
SUBCOMANDANTE MARCOS

Always, since our birth, we've insisted on another way of doing politics. Now, we had the chance...
SUBCOMANDANTE MARCOS

In reality, the pioneers of this transformation of the indigenous Zapatista woman are a merit of the...
SUBCOMANDANTE MARCOS

The Philippines is a terrible name, coming from Spain. Phillip II was the father of the inquisition,...
IMELDA MARCOS

El pasado es un muerto al cual tu decides cuanto tiempo vas a velar.
MARCOS CRESPO

In the cabaret of globalization, the state shows itself as a table dancer that strips off everything...
SUBCOMANDANTE MARCOS

The telephone stocks had a good run at the start of the week, so investors are taking their profits.
MARCOS BASAGLIA

Heartache and heartbreak reveal many different shades of the blues within one's self.
MARCOS CURIEL

Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes.
IMELDA MARCOS

We are going to rise up to overthrow the supreme governments, to overthrow corrupt officials, to thr...
SUBCOMANDANTE MARCOS

Jesus save me from your followers.
MARCOS CURIEL

The problems with First Ladies is that you have to set the standard. My role is to be both star and ...
IMELDA MARCOS

You should listen to even the smallest voice, someday it could be the one that makes a difference.
CRYSTAL MARCOS

En el camino, solo la partida es sufrimiento; el transcurso es aprendizaje y la llegada es la recomp...
MARCOS LLEMES

No tienes por qué sufrir en soledad cuando sabes que alguien te ama.
MARCOS LLEMES

No answer I could provide to that question could possibly serve my own future interests." Sarek stra...
KEIRA MARCOS

In this lifetime. You're either a 'Death Dealer' or a 'Defender of Life'
MARCOS CURIEL

The selfish pride and greed that dwells within men, nations, religious doctrines, financial institut...
MARCOS CURIEL

Musicians! Nothing is new under the sun. We are all extensions and reflections of our personal music...
MARCOS CURIEL

It's a shame that people get so caught up in the afterlife! That they forget to live in the now and ...
MARCOS CURIEL

Live one day at a time. With Peace, Positivity, Love. Most of all. Grace from above.
MARCOS CURIEL

I am beyond logic and rationality.
IMELDA MARCOS

My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become.
IMELDA MARCOS

Don't look too healthy or they'll send you to Washington to testify.
IMELDA MARCOS

Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look ...
IMELDA MARCOS

I beg Osama to stop warring. He is a Muslim, and Islam means peace. Nobody wins in a war... I wish I...
IMELDA MARCOS

In addition to being extremely expensive, and we have to put up with the stupidities that the candid...
SUBCOMANDANTE MARCOS

I don't think we showed our potential today.
MARCOS AMBROSE

I started thinking a lot, having doubts in my head. He started serving well, got some confidence. It...
MARCOS BAGHDATIS

I think my coach will watch and I'll be sleeping with my girlfriend.
MARCOS BAGHDATIS

This in one of the best matches of my life. I'm in my own world and playing great tennis. Having thi...
MARCOS BAGHDATIS

To have the crowd support -- it's incredible.
MARCOS BAGHDATIS

I'm just in my own world and playing great tennis. I think it's one of the best matches of my life.
MARCOS BAGHDATIS

I told them to keep it down, don't say anything rude. Today (Friday), they were much better. They we...
MARCOS BAGHDATIS

It's all falling apart today. Everything started with the Nasdaq, and then one thing pushed down ano...
MARCOS BASAGLIA

I've never won an MVP award before. I'll remember this day for the rest of my life.
MARCOS BALLADARES

I'm really excited, not only because its an honor I'll get to have the rest of my life, but because ...
MARCOS BALLADARES

This year was our year. And tonight we just didn't finish some of our opportunities.
MARCOS BALLADARES

The market's climate was totally euphoric. It's nice and easy trading in such a market.
MARCOS BASAGLIA

If the government does not have a majority (in Congress), getting its tax objectives and other measu...
MARCOS BASAGLIA

This is a technical adjustment; it's too soon to talk of optimism. Some stocks showed healthy gains ...
MARCOS BASAGLIA

But for that, prices must fall lower to become attractive for the funds.
MARCOS BASAGLIA

The market is scared with the embezzlement scandal. Volume was ridiculously small. If it continues l...
MARCOS BASAGLIA

People are still worrying over the Argentina situation.
MARCOS BASAGLIA

They had cars and a house. They were doing well.
MARCOS CASAS

We knew that that part of the mountain had become unstable, but nobody did anything about it.
MARCOS MALUBAY

He made us very proud. My sons turned out beautiful. I couldn't ask for more.
MARCOS HERRERA

Being a military family, we need that. We need that support. They know of me and they know of our so...
MARCOS HERRERA

To commemorate the six times champions of the world that the Brazilian football team will become thi...
MARCOS PONTES

Many people ask about the number 13, linking it to the eclipse and the alignment of the stars. I thi...
MARCOS PONTES

The manager was a winner in South America and he arrived with the mentality to achieve here what he ...
MARCOS SENNA

I am thrilled to get the opportunity to play for Spain. I want to show I am good enough to play in t...
MARCOS SENNA

And Raja took the challenge.
MARCOS RODRIGUEZ

I've had the privilege of flying with two wonderful crews. It was a wonderful experience and a wonde...
MARCOS PONTES

I'm especially happy with the second half. We did a great job of creating opportunities and getting ...
MATT MARCOS

She's a great goalie. She's definitely aggressive. By the end of the year, she'll be one of the best...
MATT MARCOS

If you know how much you've got, you probably haven't got much.
IMELDA MARCOS

Airplanes are interesting toys, but of no military value.
FERDINAND FOCH

The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
FERDINAND FOCH

Good design should be honest.
FERDINAND PORSCHE

If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.
FERDINAND PORSCHE

A formally harmonious product needs no decoration; it should be elevated through pure form.
FERDINAND PORSCHE

During my career several people have tried to push me out the door... Nobody has succeeded yet.
FERDINAND PIECH

In my career quite a few people have tried to force me out, but so far no one has succeeded.
FERDINAND PIECH

If you fire people, you fire customers.
FERDINAND PIECH

What the world needs now is more Americans. The U.S. is the first nation on earth deliberately dedic...
FERDINAND MOUNT

We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique posi...
FERDINAND MOUNT

The president is being denounced for not taking the kind of pre-emptive action in Afghanistan that h...
FERDINAND MOUNT

Sexual relations, of course, have existed, exist, and will exist. However, this is in no way connect...
FERDINAND MOUNT

In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.
FERDINAND MOUNT

For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because i...
FERDINAND MOUNT

America slept because most Americans preferred it that way.
FERDINAND MOUNT

No constitution is or can be perfectly symmetrical, what it can and must be is generally accepted as...
FERDINAND MOUNT

I think it's a pity that in many people's minds constitutional reform and PR have come to me...
FERDINAND MOUNT

Something is happening to Britain and the British. Or has happened. We are said to be passing throug...
FERDINAND MOUNT

According to Richard Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism chief, Bush was so obsessed wit...
FERDINAND MOUNT

It's true that I'm taking a break from writing a regular column to do other things but it...
FERDINAND MOUNT

A majority in all parties do, I think, want to see local government recover its old vigour and indep...
FERDINAND MOUNT

Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell ...
FERDINAND MOUNT

Defenders of the status quo will argue that this system has served us well over the centuries, that ...
FERDINAND MOUNT

All the research shows that being married, with all its ups and downs, is by far the most effective ...
FERDINAND MOUNT

We want a system that will improve consistency and steadiness in the quality of government.
FERDINAND MOUNT

For the first half of this century, High Court judges have been cautious to the point of timidity in...
FERDINAND MOUNT

One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.
FERDINAND MOUNT

A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost.
FERDINAND FOCH

No study is possible on the battlefield.
FERDINAND FOCH

The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.
FERDINAND FOCH

In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.
FERDINAND FOCH

It takes 15,000 casualties to train a major general.
FERDINAND FOCH

My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.
FERDINAND FOCH

A human society obeys the dictates of reason and is guided and governed by a respect for justice.
FERDINAND BUISSON

We must not forget that chemical warfare will sooner or later bring in its wake bacteriological warf...
FERDINAND BUISSON

From the day war conquered the skies, nothing could check its progress.
FERDINAND BUISSON

My centre is giving way, my right is in retreat, situation excellent. I attack.
FERDINAND FOCH

The Church says that the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on t...
FERDINAND MAGELLAN

"The Church says that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on ...
FERDINAND MAGELLAN

Fiat justitia et pereat mundus.
Let justice be done, though the world perish.
FERDINAND I

The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the mo...
FERDINAND MAGELLAN

The will to conquer is the first condition of victory.
FERDINAND FOCH

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
FERDINAND FOCH

I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself.
FERDINAND PORSCHE

Design must be functional, and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics without any r...
FERDINAND PORSCHE

We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity.
FERDINAND MOUNT

I came into the world at the same time as the auto, if you will.
FERDINAND PORSCHE

For a long time, it was believed that war was waged by armies which could not be identified with the...
FERDINAND BUISSON

There is a hangover from a defeat like Denmark - ask any player about when they've had a bad gam...
RIO FERDINAND

If any player has a bad game it's there in the back of your mind in the next game. There's a...
RIO FERDINAND

I am the emperor, and I want dumplings.
FERDINAND I

The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire. -Ferdinand Foch.
FERDINAND FOCH

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.
FERDINAND FOCH

The fundamental qualities for good execution of a plan is first; intelligence; then discernment and ...
FERDINAND FOCH

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.

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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.

Ferdinand Marcos

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