- I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder?
- I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
- 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.
- The permissiveness of society must be balanced with authoritativeness.
- History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.
- The challenge to America is to extend to Asia the defensive shield of American power in forms consonant with Asian freedom and self-respect.
- Freedom is not just declared; it is exercised.
- The challenge to Asia is to discard the dry, meatless bone of mysticism and fatalism.
- What we ask of the developed countries is to let the Third World find a third way.
- Little boys have amazing minds.
- The U.S. State Department has a consistent record of error in the assessment of Asian situations and judging Red Chinese intentions.
- 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.
- I can understand the Cultural Revolution of Mao Tse-tung.
- 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.
- 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.
- Once a champion, always a champion.
- Nobody is impervious to misfortune.
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