Ferdinand Marcos Quotes

Obviously I prefer freedom, but I know, and I think all history has told us, that freedom cannot flow from anarchy and disorder.

Nanny states are interested in social order. Daddy states are interested in public order.

Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.

Property with peace and order; with civil and social manners ... are good things too; and, without them, liberty is not a benefit ... not likely to continue long.

Order is said to exist where the people of the country have, as a general rule, ceased to prosecute their quarrels by private force, and acquired the habit of referring the decision of their disputes and the redress of their injuries to the public authorities.

The health of a nation is inversely proportional to the number of laws needed to govern it

Beneath a free government there is nothing but the intelligence of the people to keep the people's peace. Order must be preserved, not by a military police or regiments of horse-guards, but by the spontaneous concert of a well-informed population, resolved that the rights which have been rescued from despotism shall not be subverted by anarchy.

There can be no prosperity without law and order.

I don't want to have anything to do with the government. And yet if we don't have any regulations, there goes civilization, there goes security, and there goes protecting you against what people are going to sell you.

As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.

Everywhere you look for comparisons of life under anarchy and life under government, life under government is less violent.

Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.

The bringing-about of order is the first and fundamental task of government. We accept limits on our rights for the sake of a larger social compact all the time.

Society cannot exist without law. Law is the bond of society: that which makes it, that which preserves it and keeps it together. It is, in fact, the essence of civil society.

A State is not morally free to allow anarchy and license ... even if the majority should so desire.

Liberty unregulated by law becomes anarchy.

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The nation’s priority is stability.

When a people, having become free, establish wise laws, their revolution is complete.

One of the enduring problems with certain societies in the world - and this is certainly true of a lot of places in the Middle East - is that the capacity for self-governance and self-organizing just isn't there. It has to do with history.

Institutions are what allow us to have continuity in civilizations.

If you can ensure happiness and public order, the country will go ahead well, just like what all Thais want.

Where there is law, and where there is government, there is security.

Our common goal is to keep Hong Kong from chaos, severe polarisation, and violence.

A good society is characterised not just by liberty but by mutual respect and responsibility. When this breaks down it takes a lot more than police officers to put things right.