The Conjugal Dictatorship of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos Quotes

“The sense of urgency in finishing this work was also goaded by the thought that Marcos does not have eternal life and that the Filipino people are of unimaginable forgiving posture. I thought that, if I did not perpetuate this work for posterity, Marcos might unduly benefit from a Laurelian statement that, when a man dies, the virtues of his past are magnified and his faults are reduced to molehills.”
― Primitivo Mijares, The Conjugal Dictatorship of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos

“This book is unfinished. The Filipino people shall finish it for me.”
― Primitivo Mijares, The Conjugal Dictatorship of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos

“I started entertaining second thoughts about my support and propaganda work for Marcos towards the end of the year 1973. It is difficult to pinpoint the exact point in time when I did. But it must have been right after December 30,1973, which was the day Marcos’ second and last term in office under the 1935 Constitution ended. At about that point in time, I began to realize that Marcos imposed martial law, not to save the country from a Communist rebellion and to reform society, but to hold on to the presidency for life — and as a dictator. I”
― Primitivo Mijares, The Conjugal Dictatorship of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos

“Better a government run like hell by Filipinos than a government run like Heaven by Americans.”
― Primitivo Mijares, The Conjugal Dictatorship of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos

“The U.S. government cannot just fold its arms on the Philippines with which it has had a long tradition of friendship and history of tutelage in democracy. In the light of the traditional American policy of fighting its defensive wars outside the American continent, the Philippines becomes America’s special concern because it is a vital link in the U.S. world-wide defense network designed to keep wars away from American shores.”
― Primitivo Mijares, The Conjugal Dictatorship of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos