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Manuel Luis Quezón y Molina foi o presidente das Filipinas entre 1935 e 1944.

Manuel Quezón foi um combatente do movimento revolucionário chefiado por Emilio Aguinaldo. Entre 1909 e 1916 viveu em Washington e de 1916 a 1935 foi presidente do Senado.

Foi eleito primeiro presidente da Comunidade das Filipinas em 1935 em virtude de ser o principal dirigente do Partido Nacionalista Filipino.

Durante a invasão japonesa, mudou-se para os Estados Unidos da América, assumindo aí, em 1942 a presidência no exílio da União Filipina.

Quezon acabou por falecer vítima de tuberculose em 1944, sem ver as Filipinas libertadas do jugo japonês.

Em sua homenagem deu-se o seu nome a Quezon City, uma das maiores cidades do arquipélago. Wikipedia  

✵ 19. Agosto 1878 – 1. Agosto 1944
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Manuel Quezon: Frases em inglês

“My loyalty to my party ends where my loyalty to my country begins.”

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Manuel L. Quezon

As quoted in John Gunther's Inside Asia. (1939)

“I would rather have a government run like hell by Filipinos than a government run like heaven by any foreigner.”

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Speech on Civil Liberties http://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/1939/12/09/speech-of-president-quezon-on-civil-liberties-december-9-1939/, delivered on the occasion of the interuniversity oratorical contest held under the auspices of the Civil Liberties Union at the Ateneo auditorium, Manila, on December 9, 1939
Variante: I would rather have a government run like hell by Filipinos than a government run like heaven by Americans
Contexto: It is true, and I am proud of it, that I once said, “I would rather have a government run like hell by Filipinos than a government run like heaven by Americans.” I want to tell you that I have, in my life, made no other remark which went around the world but that. There had been no paper in the United States, including a village paper, which did not print that statement, and I also had seen it printed in many newspapers in Europe. I would rather have a government run like hell by Filipinos than a government run like heaven by any foreigner. I said that once; I say it again, and I will always say it as long as I live.

“The Latin American people believed and feel that we Filipinos form past 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.”

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As quoted in Ambeth R. Ocampo's Chulalongkorn's Elephants: The Philippines in Asian History, Looking Back 4 (2011)