77 Quotes by Ferdinand Marcos

It's easier to run a revolution than a government.

The permissiveness of society must be balanced with authoritativeness.

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

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

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.

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.

History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.

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.

There are many things we do not want about the world. Let us not just mourn them. Let us change them.