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''' The late President Manuel Quezon the first President of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, was known as a man of words. He spoke eloquently and was a very quotable speaker. Time, however, has made some forget these qualities.

Quezon's only known recorded speech is his "Message to My People." Delivered in English and Spanish, according to his grandson, Manuel L. Quezon III, the speech was recorded in the 1920s, "when [President Manuel Quezon] was first diagnosed with tuberculosis and assumed he didn't have much longer to live."

Here is the full transcript of President Manuel Quezon's speech from the mid-1920s.

"My fellow citizens: there is one thought I want you always to bear in mind. And that is: that you are Filipinos. That the Philippines are your country, and the only country God has given you. That you must keep it for yourselves, for your children, and for your children's children, until the world is no more. You must live for it, and die for it, if necessary.

Your country is a great country. It has a great past and a great future. The Philippines of yesterday are consecrated by the sacrifices of lives and treasure of your patriots, martyrs, and soldiers. The Philippines of today are honored by the wholehearted devotion to its cause of unselfish and courageous statesmen. The Philippines of tomorrow will be the country of plenty, happiness, and of freedom. 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. A republic of virtuous and righteous men and women all working together for a better world than the one we have at present.

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