Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Diosdado Macapagal

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a president Diosdado Macapagal.
Last updated on October 8, 2024.
Diosdado Macapagal

Diosdado Pangan Macapagal Sr. was the ninth president of the Philippines, serving from 1961 to 1965, and the sixth vice president, serving from 1957 to 1961. He also served as a member of the House of Representatives, and headed the Constitutional Convention of 1970. He was the father of Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, who followed his path as president of the Philippines from 2001 to 2010.

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.
The strength of the nation lies in the well-being of the common man. — © Diosdado Macapagal
The strength of the nation lies in the well-being of the common man.
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.
I have sat at the sumptuous tables of power, but I have not run away with the silverware.
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