Speech on independence day

Leading the Philippines’ commemoration of its 125th Independence Day, President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. ensured to address the “un-freedoms” in the society, including poverty and inequality. Marcos said this during the Independence Day ceremony held at the Quirino Grandstand on Monday. He admitted that at present, there are still “manifold un-freedoms prevailing in the society that stand in the way of human development.” “These are the corrosive political and social conditions that make the nation not as free as we would like to profess and to believe, such as poverty, inadequate economic opportunities, disabling rather than enabling living conditions, inequality and apathy,” Marcos said in his speech. “We will strive to remove the un-freedoms, we will aim to feed the hungry, free the bound, and banish the poverty,” he added. Marcos said his administration would implement wise policies, including the Philippine Development Plan, to address the ills in the society. “I will be with you on that long and uphill road to achieve our dream of freedom, freedom from hunger, freedom from neglect, freedom from fear,” Marcos said. Meanwhile, he said “it is appropriate to pause, to reflect, on how far we have come from that profound transformative event in our history.” “The heroes of our liberation would be proud to know that we have thrown off the ominous yolk of domination. Never again to be subservient to any external force that directs or determines our destiny,” Marcos sa...

Whether election day should be made a national holiday like Independence Day is debated. Some say a holiday would increase voter turnout by enabling more people to vote while celebrating democracy. Others say a holiday would disadvantage low-income and blue collar workers and corporations should have better policies for voting time off. For more on the debate about making election day a national holiday, visit

Transcript AND NOW, FRIENDS AND COUNTRYMEN, if the wise and learned philosophers of the elder world, the first observers of nutation and aberration, the discoverers of maddening ether and invisible planets, the inventors of Congreve rockets and Shrapnel shells, should find their hearts disposed to enquire what has America done for the benefit of mankind? Let our answer be this: America, with the same voice which spoke herself into existence as a nation, proclaimed to mankind the inextinguishable rights of human nature, and the only lawful foundations of government. America, in the assembly of nations, since her admission among them, has invariably, though often fruitlessly, held forth to them the hand of honest friendship, of equal freedom, of generous reciprocity. She has uniformly spoken among them, though often to heedless and often to disdainful ears, the language of equal liberty, of equal justice, and of equal rights. She has, in the lapse of nearly half a century, without a single exception, respected the independence of other nations while asserting and maintaining her own. She has abstained from interference in the concerns of others, even when conflict has been for principles to which she clings, as to the last vital drop that visits the heart. She has seen that probably for centuries to come, all the contests of that Aceldama the European world, will be contests of inveterate power, and emerging right. Wherever the standard of freedom and Independence has been o...

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