“It required a lot less energy, intelligence, and competence to run against government than to try to make government work.”

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Speech on Civil Liberties http://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/1939/12/09/speech-of-president-quezon-on-civil-liberties-december-9-1939/, delivered on the occasion of the interuniversity oratorical contest held under the auspices of the Civil Liberties Union at the Ateneo auditorium, Manila, on December 9, 1939 <br class="br">Variant: I would rather have a government run like hell by Filipinos than a government run like heaven by Americans <br class="br">Context: It is true, and I am proud of it, that I once said, “I would rather have a government run like hell by Filipinos than a government run like heaven by Americans.” I want to tell you that I have, in my life, made no other remark which went around the world but that. There had been no paper in the United States, including a village paper, which did not print that statement, and I also had seen it printed in many newspapers in Europe. I would rather have a government run like hell by Filipinos than a government run like heaven by any foreigner. I said that once; I say it again, and I will always say it as long as I live.

Source: Discovery of Freedom: Man's Struggle Against Authority (1943), p. 32

Free Speech in Wartime (October 6, 1917)