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" I would prefer a government run like hell by Filipinos to one run like heaven by Americans because no matter how bad a Filipino government might be, it can still be improved. "
The United States and the Philippines - Page 324
by Daniel Roderick Williams - 1924 - 335 pages
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The Philippine Republic, Volume 3

1926 - 21 pages
...personal attack on Mr. Quezon by charging the latter with having made the statement that he preferred a government "run like hell by Filipinos to one run like heaven by Americans." What Mr. Quezon probably intended to imply was that he would choose a government of Filipines...
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The World's Work, Volume 47

1924 - 718 pages
...dor* p.«d by the MANUEL L. QUEZON President of the Philippine Senate. Mr. Quezon frankly admits that he prefers "a government run like hell by Filipinos to one run like heaven by strangers." The above extract makes a part of the $500,000 propaganda broadcast by the Bulletin under Roxas large...
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The United States and the Philippines

Daniel Roderick Williams - 1924 - 368 pages
...concerned, that is, the masses of the people. Manuel Quezon expressed the idea by stating that he "preferred a government run like hell by Filipinos to one run like heaven by Americans." Inasmuch as it is the masses of the people and not Mr. Quezon and his fellow politicians...
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Through the Philippines and Hawaii

Frank George Carpenter - 1925 - 442 pages
...who must work for their bosses in every 273 possible way. You remember that Quezon said he preferred a government 'run like hell by Filipinos to one run like heaven by strangers.' That is the real attitude of the independence leaders. "You remember how the Jones Act created the...
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Diplomat in Khaki: Major General Frank Ross McCoy and American Foreign ...

Andrew J. Bacevich - 1989 - 292 pages
...which that authority might be used was irrelevant. As Quezon notoriously remarked, he would prefer a "government run like hell by Filipinos to one run like heaven by Americans." What Philippine leaders demanded of Wood was not a compromise interpretation of the Jones...
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Secret Mission to Melbourne, November, 1941

Sky Phillips - 1992 - 324 pages
...world knows what your Filipino Napoleon, President Quezon, said about government — that he'd prefer a government 'run like hell by Filipinos, to one run like heaven by Americans.' Evidently his countrymen agree. And the Papuans would undoubtedly prefer a government run...
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Race and U.S. Foreign Policy in the Ages of Territorial and Market Expansion ...

Michael L. Krenn - 1998 - 428 pages
...later, amid the undenied benefits of American rule, he took the curious position that he preferred " a government run like hell by Filipinos to one run like heaven by strangers." 151 Of the folly of Oriental nationalism we nationalists of the Occident speak with poor grace. For...
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The Star-entangled Banner: One Hundred Years of America in the Philippines

Sharon Delmendo - 2004 - 252 pages
...was a fervent advocate of immediate and absolute independence, famously declaring in 1923, "I prefer a government run like hell by Filipinos to one run like heaven by Americans" (Constantino 1994, 335-36). Yet Quezon favored legislation that deferred or gave no specific...
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Perspectives on Human Dignity: A Conversation

Jeff Malpas, Norelle Lickiss - 2007 - 240 pages
...question goes deeper. In the Philippines the great politico Manuel Quezon declared that he would prefer a government 'run like hell by Filipinos to one run like heaven by Americans24' Destroying 'national humiliation' surely guaranteed nothing to the masses. The process...
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Dissenting Voices in America's Rise to Power

David Mayers - 2007 - 10 pages
...Americans, immodestly confident in their own genius, caused Manuel Quezon to declare: "I would prefer a government run like hell by Filipinos to one run like heaven by Americans."28 Aguinaldo and companions viewed the substitution of US rule for Spain as perverted justice....
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