“My loyalty to my party ends where my loyalty to my country begins.”
As quoted in John Gunther's Inside Asia. (1939)
Manuel Luis Quezón y Molina è stato un politico filippino.
Ha servito come presidente delle Filippine dal 15 novembre 1935 fino alla sua morte avvenuta il 1º agosto 1944. Il suo secondo mandato come Presidente, essendo stato rieletto, è iniziato il 31 dicembre 1941. Nel 1907 fondò, insieme a Sergio Osmeña, il Partido Nacionalista.
Quezon è il secondo presidente delle Filippine, dopo Emilio Aguinaldo, la cui gestione non ha ricevuto alcun riconoscimento internazionale.
Massone, fu Gran maestro della Gran Loggia delle Filippine dal 1918 al 1919. Riposa al Manila North Cemetery.
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“My loyalty to my party ends where my loyalty to my country begins.”
As quoted in John Gunther's Inside Asia. (1939)
Speech on Civil Liberties http://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/1939/12/09/speech-of-president-quezon-on-civil-liberties-december-9-1939/, delivered on the occasion of the interuniversity oratorical contest held under the auspices of the Civil Liberties Union at the Ateneo auditorium, Manila, on December 9, 1939
Variante: I would rather have a government run like hell by Filipinos than a government run like heaven by Americans
Contesto: It is true, and I am proud of it, that I once said, “I would rather have a government run like hell by Filipinos than a government run like heaven by Americans.” I want to tell you that I have, in my life, made no other remark which went around the world but that. There had been no paper in the United States, including a village paper, which did not print that statement, and I also had seen it printed in many newspapers in Europe. I would rather have a government run like hell by Filipinos than a government run like heaven by any foreigner. I said that once; I say it again, and I will always say it as long as I live.
As quoted in Ambeth R. Ocampo's Chulalongkorn's Elephants: The Philippines in Asian History, Looking Back 4 (2011)