I want our people to be like a molave tree, strong and resilient, standing on the hillsides, unafraid of the rising tide, lighting and the storm, confident of its strength. Manuel L. Quezon More Quotes by Manuel L. Quezon More Quotes From Manuel L. Quezon I would rather have a country run like hell by Filipinos than a country run like heaven by the Americans, because however a bad Filipino government might be, we can always change it. Manuel L. Quezon government running country My loyalty to my party ends where my loyalty to my country begins. Manuel L. Quezon party loyalty country I prefer a government run like hell by Filipinos to a government run like heaven by Americans. Manuel L. Quezon government running heaven The Latin American people believed and feel that we Filipinos form part of that vast family, the children of Spain. Thus, although Spain ceased to govern those countries many years ago and although another nation is sovereign in the Philippines, those Latin-American peoples feel themselves as brothers to the people of the Philippines. It is the Spanish language that still binds us to those peoples, and the Spanish language will bind us to those peoples eternally if we have the wisdom and patriotism of preserving it. Manuel L. Quezon
