28 Quotes by Carlos P. Romulo

Never forget, Americans, that yours is a spiritual country. Yes, I know you’re a practical people. Like others, I’ve marveled at your factories, your skyscrapers, and your arsenals. But underlying everything else is the fact that America began as a God-loving, God-fearing, God-worshipping people.

There should be no inferiors and no superiors for true world friendship.

This proved to me that no matter how diametrically opposed your views may be from another’s if you can succeed in knowing him as a human being you can understand each other.

Mine was a good race. Ours was a good country. I loved every foot of it that I knew... I had been reared in a wonderful country among wonderful people and I wanted all the rest of the world to know and respect the Philippines.

Our world is constantly in change and the great change is always toward freedom. When we speak of freedom we speak of equality. Nations will rise and fall but equality remains the ideal.

I feel like a Gold surrounded by Silver!

Among the lessons learned in my lifetime is the ease with which corruption can enter high places in the mask of friendship. Sometimes the recipient is not aware of the barbed hook under the gift; often, he who gives may not know but be the unwitting agent of a craftier mind.

I was convinced that luck was a matter of knowing what one wanted and then being willing to work to make the wish come true.

Agreements in the organizations of world power are never reached on the floor. They are made in the delegates’ lounge and corridors long before the voting begins.