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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 own independence which took many years and bloodshed to be achieved.

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. "

Content
"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."''