Ferdinand Emmanuel Edralin Marcos Sr. was a Filipino politician who served as the 10th President of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986.

In any of President Ferdinand Marcos’s key speeches, he was most inspiring when he would talk about his vision of the New Society, or Bagong Lipunan, in which every individual Filipino could be free to fulfill their potential as human beings.

In such a society, no longer would Filipinos live in poverty, hunger, corruption, mass deception, and violence. After centuries of colonial oppression, Marcos would declare in his speeches, it was time for Filipinos to finally live in a way that was worthy of their dignity.

In his declaration of Martial Law, Marcos made many specific promises in order to achieve his dream of the New Society. A brilliant statesman and orator by many accounts, his vision represented a great aspiration for the Filipino people to enjoy happy and fulfilling lives.

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