Ferdinand Marcos Quotes
To write our constitution is for the past, the present, and the future to come together all at once in one single motion, in one single heave, one single cry. For we correct the errors of the past and chart a new course for the future, based on the experience of the present.
Marcos, Ferdinand E. "Address to the 1971 Constitutional Convention." Manila, 1 June 1971.
He and Thomas Jefferson were the two most vocal propononents of this view amongst the Founding Fathers.
The past history of Europe had developed so much hate and enmity among the different nations that they were all loaded down with the past and to move forward he argued that the past must be forgotten. However it was not, and Germany most of all harbored resentments which erupted a decade later with Hitler, the Nazis and WWII.
Ferdinand Emmanuel Edralin Marcos Sr. was a Filipino politician, lawyer and kleptocrat who served as the 10th President of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986. Espousing an ideology of "constitutional authoritarianism"(p414) under the New Society Movement, he ruled as a dictator under martial law from 1972 until 1981, and kept most of his martial law powers until he was deposed in 1986. One of the most controversial leaders of the 20th century, Marcos' rule was infamous for its corruption, extravagance, and brutality.
