Quotes from Ferdinand Marcos

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.

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.

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

We dare not supress thoughts, but when they are expressed through violence, like the idea that power comes from the barrel of a gun, they must be dealt with and met accordingly.

Let us not be carried away by the undisguised agitations of leaders who virtually asked people to take the law into their own hands.