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"Message to My People" is a public speech delivered by former President | Manuel Luís Quezon y Molina during the 1920's. The speech was made to remind his countrymen of their independence which took years to be achieved by the past generations. "Your country is great country. It has a great past, a great present, and a great future." said by our dear President Manuel L.Quezon. Our country is our home. We are supposed to love and to take care of it. Bringing color to our beloved land lays in the hand of Filipino people.

According to Mary Clarince David "The strength of the nation is the strength of its people." Our country's beauty came from what we do. Filipino's are known to be resilient, the people who are willing to do everything for their land, the people who works hand in hand to rise from all the fall they've been through. Unity is one of the things that President Quezon was pointing to. He believes that as Filipinos work together they are working out for the product of their future and a memory for their past. Since that our people are used to live in freedom, one must be rich in discipline.

Freedom is a great challenge for a person, knowing that there are a lot of things that one can do while holding a freedom on their palm that is why discipline is a must. In every action that you do have you ever thought of what others would think of you or how would they feel or react? Well I think you should start giving a thought about it now. In whatever that you do it will affect another until a lot of people receive that thing. The country's survival is built by its people's unity and peace. Our President Quezon once dreamt of having people which are filled with strength.

Filipino's will not be called "resilient" if we aren't strong enough. Storms may arise but deep within their hearts there's bravery to face whatever tragic thing would come. War may have come to their land but Filipino people believe that there would come a day that as long as the sun rises there's hope for everyone as long as they are working as one.

President Quezon's speech was to remind us of how we should be thankful for our country. Our land is rich in culture, which are filled with the memories of the past and to be celebrated in the future. Patriots and Soldiers are the evidences of how our people cares and love their land. The one and only key for a peaceful and wonderful country is only its people who stands together.

Recording of Speech
A sample of Quezon's voice is preserved in the recording of a speech entitled "Message to My People", delivered in English and Spanish. According to Manuel L. Quezon III, his grandfather's speech was recorded when he was President of the Senate "in the 1920s, when he was first diagnosed with tuberculosis and assumed he didn't have much longer to live. "

Transcript
"My fellow citizens there is one thought which I want you to have in mind. And that is that you are Filipinos, that the Philippines, is your country and the only country God has given you: that you must keep it for yourselves, for your children, and your children's children, until the world is no more and that you must live for it and die for it, if necessary. Your country is a great country. It has a great past, a great present, and a great future. The Philippines of yesterday was consecrated by the sacrifices of lives and pleasure of your patriots, martyrs, and soldiers. The Philippines of today is honored by the wholehearted devotion to its cause of unselfish and courageous statesmen. The Philippines of tomorrow will be the county of plenty, of happiness, and of freedom. It will be a Philippines with her head raised in the midst of the West Pacific, mistress of her own destiny. Holding in her hand the torch of freedom and democracy and pointing the way to the teeming millions of Africa and Asia now suffering under alien rule; A Philippine, heir in the orient to the teachings of Christianity: and a republic if virtuous and righteous men and women all working together for a better world than the one we have at present."

Filipino Translation
"Mga kababayan ko: may isang kaisipang nais kong lagi niyong tatandaan. At ito ay: kayo ay Pilipino. Na ang Pilipinas ay inyong bayan, at ang tanging bayan na ibinigay ng Diyos sa inyo.  Na dapat niyo itong ingatan para sa inyong mga sarili, sa inyong mga anak, at sa mga anak ng inyong anak, hanggang sa katapusan ng mundo.  Kailangan niyong mabuhay para sa bayan, at kung kinakailangan, mamatay para sa bayan. Dakila ang inyong bayan.  Mayroon itong dakilang nakaraan, at dakilang kinabukasan.  Ang Pilipinas ng kahapon ay naging dakila dahil sa pag-aalay ng buhay at yaman ng inyong mga bayani, martir, at sundalo.  Ang Pilipinas ng ngayon ay pinararangalan ng taos-pusong pagmamahal ng mga pinunong di-makasarili at may lakas ng loob.  Ang Pilipinas ng bukas ay magiging bayan ng kasaganaan, ng kaligayahan, at ng kalayaan.  ''Isang Pilipinas na nakataas ang noo sa Kanlurang Pasipiko, tangan ang sariling kapalaran, hawak sa kanyang kamay ang ilaw ng kalayaan at demokrasya.  Isang republika ng mga mamamayang marangal at may paninindigan na sabay-sabay nagsisikap mapabuti ang daigdig natin ngayon."''