Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Luis A. Ferre

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Puerto Rican engineer Luis A. Ferre.
Last updated on September 18, 2024.
Luis A. Ferre

Don Luis Alberto Ferré Aguayo was a Puerto Rican engineer, industrialist, politician, philanthropist, and a patron of the arts. He was the governor of Puerto Rico from 1969 to 1973. He was the founder of the New Progressive Party, which advocates for Puerto Rico to become a state of the United States of America. He is a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Industry is not a collection of machines and tools and buildings. It is a social entity that has the responsibility of realizing the happiness of those who work in it.
Not only are Puerto Ricans citizens by birth, but one would be hard-pressed to find a Puerto Rican without a sister in New York or a son in Chicago, a cousin in Orlando or a daughter in Honolulu or Oklahoma City.
Revolutionary in my ideas, liberal in my objectives and conservative in my methods. — © Luis A. Ferre
Revolutionary in my ideas, liberal in my objectives and conservative in my methods.
I hope I will live to see a final meeting of the minds between Puerto Rico and statehood. But if I don’t live that long, I am certain it will happen.
My theory was that a city without a newspaper is a city without a soul.
I am concerned that many young people in the Hemisphere seem to envision the United States as a nation intoxicated by power, addicted to warfare, controlled by a military-industrial complex, and determined to preserve the status quo, that we are against rapid economic and social growth.
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