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Diosdado Macapagal Quotes

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

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 Macapagal
Struggle, Oneness, Blood
Diosdado Macapagal (1968). “A Stone for the Edifice: Memoirs of a President”

The strength of the nation lies in the well-being of the common man.

Diosdado Macapagal
Lying, Men, Common

I have sat at the sumptuous tables of power, but I have not run away with the silverware.

Diosdado Macapagal
Running, Tables, Sat
"World: Common Man's President". During campaign stops in 1961, Time, content.time.com. November 24, 1961.

The other matter to which we beg leave to refer in candor has been the anxiety shown for the Constitution and civil liber­ties because of alleged dictatorial, impatient and vindictive tendencies on our part. This concern is without basis in fact.

Diosdado Macapagal
Ties, Anxiety, Matter
Diosdado Macapagal (1964). “New Hope for the Common Man: Speeches and Statements of President Diosado Macapagal”

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