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I have sat at the sumptuous tables of power, but I have not run away with the silverware.

During campaign stops in 1961

Diosdado Macapagal

The other matter to which we beg leave to refer in candor has been the anxiety shown for the Constitution and civil liberties because of alleged dictatorial, impatient and vindictive tendencies on our part. This concern is without basis in fact.

Diosdado Macapagal

A nation is born into freedom on the day when such a people, moulded into a nation by a process of cultural evolution and sense of oneness born of common struggle and suffering, announces to the world that it asserts its natural right to liberty and is ready to defend it with blood, life, and honor.

Diosdado Macapagal

Diosdado Macapagal

Diosdado Macapagal

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Born: September 28, 1910

Died: April 21, 1997 (aged 86)

Bio: Diosdado Pangan Macapagal was the ninth President of the Philippines, serving from 1961 to 1965, and the sixth Vice-President, serving from 1957 to 1961.

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