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Of what good is democracy if it is not for the poor?

— Ferdinand Marcos Notes on the New Society of the Philippines (1973)

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My spirit will rise from the grave and the world shall know that I was right.

Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And in acting alone, accept everything alone.

Elect me as your congressman today, I promise you an Ilocano president in 20 years.

Election speech as candidate for Congress (1949)

Authority must be utilized by government to attain certain noble objective but this authority must be circumscribed.

You are repetitious and stupid.

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The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament!

Vladimir Lenin The State and Revolution (1917)

The law itself is the instrument of the ruling class; hence it is a logical impossibility for another class to assume power legally.

Oliver Cox Caste, Class, and Race: A Study in Social Dynamics (1948)

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of bourgeois stupidity.

Gustave Flaubert

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