Diosdado Macapagal quotes
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“A nation is born into freedom on the day when such a people, moulded into a nation by a process of cultural evolution and sense of oneness born of common struggle and suffering, announces to the world that it asserts its natural right to liberty and is ready to defend it with blood, life, and honor.”
-- Diosdado MacapagalSource : Diosdado Macapagal (1968). “A Stone for the Edifice: Memoirs of a President”
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“The strength of the nation lies in the well-being of the common man.”
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“I have sat at the sumptuous tables of power, but I have not run away with the silverware.”
-- Diosdado MacapagalSource : "World: Common Man's President". During campaign stops in 1961, Time, content.time.com. November 24, 1961.
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“The other matter to which we beg leave to refer in candor has been the anxiety shown for the Constitution and civil liberÂties because of alleged dictatorial, impatient and vindictive tendencies on our part. This concern is without basis in fact.”
-- Diosdado MacapagalSource : Diosdado Macapagal (1964). “New Hope for the Common Man: Speeches and Statements of President Diosado Macapagal”
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“The struggle of today is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also.”
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“Narration is as much a part of human nature as breath and the circulation of the blood.”
Source : "Best Story; Narrate Or Die" by A.S. Byatt, www.nytimes.com. April 18, 1999.
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