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Manuel Quezon was born on August 19, 1878, to Lucio Quezon and Maria Molina, both schoolteachers, in Baler, El Principe, Captaincy General of the Philippines
(now Baler, Aurora, Philippines).
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Excerpt from Philippine Independence: Speech of Hon. Manuel L. Quezon of the Philippines in the House of Representatives, Thursday, March 2, 1911 Nothing was forgotten. And the resolutions of the assembly making a public declaration of the sentiments of the people to live a free and independent life are a monument to its loyalty and its civicism. It is not true that some of the political parties represented in the assembly have. Made concrete promises of immediate independence if its members reached the assembly. And the only thing which sustained it and which now sustains it is that the Filipino people desire it. The policy of the assembly was conducted within the amplest tolerance and the best feeling of intelligence and cooperation. And this was done not because within or without the assemhlv the Filipino people had renounced its ideals, but because it was believed that such policy would be. Among other measures. A proper argument to show the justice of such ideals. In this manner when the party that obtained the majority in the first elections again presented itself t the people in the electoral campaign which preceded the second assem ly. It received the most sincere and complete approval of the people. Which elected a more considerable majority in its favor than in the past. Education. Material improvements. Agriculture, industry and com merce, public health. Local governments. Labor - everything which has been under the consideration of the assembly - received immediate and efficient attention. Two very notable tendencies of the legislation passed are. First, the profoundly democratic sense which was shown from the first instance in the law appropriating a million pesos for the schools. And in the law governing labor accidents: and, 8 nd, the character of stability brought to the legislative sphere an appropri ately shown in the law which provided for the revision of all the codes 1nd the compilation of the infinite number of administrative laws now in force. When there is seen and judged with eyes free from all prejudice the result of the Philippine Assembly, which has fully jus tified the hopes of those that vouched for it and were responsible to Congress for its establishment. And when are considered the tremendous difficulties that in the advance of the liberty of all countries aecom pany the organization and operation of popular assemblies, in the serene judgment of all impartial and just men there must necessarily be admitted the basis on which the Filipino people tests in insisting on their demands which adversity and mishaps fortify and solidify, to possess the high attributes and assume the grave responsibilities of a sovereign free and independent government. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Manuel Quezon was born on August 19, 1878, to Lucio Quezon and Maria Molina, both schoolteachers, in Baler, El Principe, Captaincy General of the Philippines
(now Baler, Aurora, Philippines).
Manuel enrolled at San Juan de Letran College, after which he was appointed lecturer at the University of Santo Tomas. There he studied law. Quezon was considered "bright but lazy". His studies were interrupted by the Spanish-American War.
Quezon displayed his fearless, bold, and quick-tempered style of fighting, when he joined the revolutionary forces of Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo during the revolution against Spain. He was promoted from private to major until, in 1899, he surrendered to the Americans, spent six months in jail, and then returned to Manila.
In 1903 Quezon passed the bar examination and set up practice in Baler. He gave up private practice to assume the post of provincial fiscal of Mindoro and later of Tayabas. In 1906 he was elected provincial governor. His campaign showed his native political wisdom when he sided with popular issues in a somewhat opportunistic manner. Often he abandoned consistency for the sake of pursuing what to his enemies was nothing but plain demagoguery.
In 1907 Quezon ran successfully as candidate for the Philippine Assembly on the Nacionalista party platform. In the Assembly he was elected floor leader, and Sergio Osmena, his archrival, became Speaker of the House. Quezon served as resident commissioner in Washington, D. C. (1909 - 1916), where he became notorious as a romantic dancer, playboy diplomat, and shrewd lobbyist.
In 1916 Quezon was elected to the Senate, and soon became its president.
In September 1935, under the banner of a coalition party, Quezon was elected first president of the commonwealth, with Osmena as vice president.
In November 1941 Quezon was reelected president of the commonwealth. When the Japanese forces occupied Manila in 1942, Quezon and his Cabinet fled from the Philippines and set up an exile government in Washington in May 1942.
Quezon died on August 1, 1944, a year before the liberation of the Philippines.
Although Quezon lived through the most turbulent times in Philippine history, when the peasantry - who composed 75 percent of the people - was rebelling against social injustice and age-old exploitation, he failed to institute long-lasting reforms in land tenancy, wages, income distribution, and other areas of crisis. Essentially a politician who was both tactful and bullheaded, supple and compulsive, Quezon served mainly the interest of the Filipino elite, or ruling oligarchy (about 200 families), who owned and controlled the estates and businesses.
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In 1907 Quezon became a member of the Nacionalista party.
In the Senate he attacked Osmena for the latter's theory of "unipersonal" leadership. Quezon's "collectivist" idea of leadership won in the 1922 election. Soon, however, the two warring factions of the Nacionalista party united in the Partido Nacionalista Consolidado, headed by Quezon, who then became president of the party.
In 1933 a bill providing for the future independence of the Philippines, the Hare-Hawes-Cutting Bill, was passed by the U. S. Senate. Quezon opposed the new law because "America would still hold military and naval bases in the Philippines even after the latter's independence, and, moreover, export duties regulated in the law would destroy both industry and trade. " He was referring to what has since become the most troublesome cause of conflict between the Philippines and the United States: the right of jurisdiction over military bases and the special trade concessions given to landlords, compradors, and bureaucrat-capitalists with interests in export industries. The real cause of Quezon's opposition to the law, apart from his objection to specific provisions, was the fact that it was identified with the Osmeña faction. Quezon led a mission to the United States to work for a bill generally similar to the Hare-Hawes-Cutting Law, the Tydings-McDuffie Law, known also as the Philippine Independence Act. This law provided for Philippine independence in 1946 and tax-free importation of Philippine products such as sugar, coconut oil, and cordage into the United States and the diplomatic negotiation of the military bases issue.
Quezon's first act as President was to push a national defense bill through the rubber-stamp unicameral legislature, which he controlled. This bill made him chairman of the Council for National Defense, with the chief of staff of the armed forces directly subordinate to him.
On August 10, 1940, influenced by the growing Japanese imperialist encroachment, Quezon jammed through the National Assembly the Emergency Powers Bill, which vested him with dictatorial powers. Passed by a vote of 62 to 1, the bill gave Quezon the authority to change even the social and economic structure of the country: he was given the authority to require civilians to render service to the government, to outlaw strikes, to commandeer shipping and other transportation, to control fuel resources, to revise the educational system, and so forth.
Quotations:
"I would rather have a country run like hell by Filipinos than a country run like heaven by the Americans, because however a bad Filipino government might be, we can always change it. "
"I want our people to be like a molave tree, strong and resilient, standing on the hillsides, unafraid of the rising tide, lighting and the storm, confident of its strength. "
"My loyalty to my party ends where my loyalty to my country begins. "
Quotes from others about the person
"a successful politician . .. because he was a master of political intrigue. He knew how to build strong and loyal friendships even among political opponents, but he knew also how to excite envy, distrust, ambition, jealousy, even among his own loyal followers. " - Claro M. Recto
Quezon was married to his first cousin, Aurora Aragon Quezon, on December 17, 1918. The couple had four children.