President Ferdinand Marcos does not forget the lessons given to him by his late father, former president Ferdinand E. Marcos Sr.

“Be a Filipino, serve the Filipino, protect Filipinos and the Philippines,” Marcos Jr. said during the wreath-laying ceremony in honor of his father’s 107th birth anniversary at the Marcos Monument in Batac City, Ilocos Norte. 

The President said he has followed this guidance from the start of his term “and I will continue to follow that credo.”

“Be a good Filipino. Be a Filipino that loves your countrymen. Be a Filipino that loves your country and do everything and sacrifice everything to achieve that purpose, to achieve that goal that you become a good Filipino and you leave the Philippines a better place than you found it,” he also said.

“That is my continuing guide. That is the credo that we should live by. And for that, I will be eternally grateful to my dad for the lessons that he taught us, for the values that imbued in our very souls. And that has served us all well,” added Marcos Jr.