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I have committed many sins in my life. But stealing money from the government, from the people, is not one of them.

— Ferdinand Marcos

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

Notes on the New Society of the Philippines (1973)

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.

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Opulence is always the result of theft, if not committed by the actual possessor, then by his predecessor.

Jerome The Cry for Justice (1915)

Bourgeois society is ruled by equivalence. It makes the dissimilar comparable by reducing it to abstract quantities. To the Enlightenment, that which does not reduce to numbers, and ultimately to the one, becomes illusion.

Max Horkheimer Dialektik der Aufklärung [Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944)

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