"As you prepare to relinquish the duties and responsibilities of your high office, I send you my warm good wishes. I k…"

"The nation was awakened by that deafening shot."

"I am not embarrassed to tell you that I believe in miracles."

"By the grace of God and the unshakeable faith of the Filipino people, I am confident we shall pull through."

"In giving, we receive; in losing, we find; and out of defeat, we snatched our victory."

"With malice towards none, with charity for all, with firmness in the rights as God gives us to see the rights, let us…"

"As I came to power peacefully, so shall I keep it. That is my contract with my people and my commitment to God."

"None of the good that we do is ever lost; not even the light in an empty room is wasted."

"I believed that nowhere could you find more effective cures for the ills of our country — such as the habit of oppres…"

"Let us rather be grateful to the nation and to the historical moment for the privilege we had of being heroes."