Frases de Luis A. Ferré

Luis Alberto Ferré Aguayo fue un ingeniero, empresario, filántropo, político, músico y mecenas de las artes. Fue el tercer Gobernador del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico electo democráticamente de 1969 a 1973 y padre fundador del Partido Nuevo Progresista que aboga por la estadidad de Puerto Rico. Wikipedia  

✵ 17. febrero 1904 – 21. octubre 2003
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Luis A. Ferré Frases y Citas

“La razón no grita, la razón convence.”

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Luis A. Ferré: Frases en inglés

“Revolutionary in my ideas, liberal in my objectives and conservative in my methods.”

As quoted by the New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/22/us/luis-a-ferre-dies-at-99-pushed-puerto-rican-statehood.html in an October 22, 2003 obituary.

“We speak Spanish but we think American. We don't want to be a colony, we don't want to be inferior. We want to be equal.”

On Puerto Ricans and their relationship with the United States, in a 1999 WOSO radio station interview in Puerto Rico, as quoted by the Associated Press http://www.apnewsarchive.com/2003/Ex-Puerto-Rican-Governor-Ferre-Dies-at-99/id-8cb93046108ad2da5ed0958cda645bfb

“Industry is not a collection of machines and tools and buildings. It is a social entity that has the responsibility of realizing the happiness of those who work in it.”

Quoted by TIME Magazine on May 11, 1962 Time Magazine http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,939385,00.html

“Not only are Puerto Ricans citizens by birth, but one would be hard-pressed to find a Puerto Rican without a sister in New York or a son in Chicago, a cousin in Orlando or a daughter in Honolulu or Oklahoma City.”

On the subject of the Puerto Rican diaspora to a United States Senate committee in 1998, as quoted by the New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/22/us/luis-a-ferre-dies-at-99-pushed-puerto-rican-statehood.html.

“The scholars and critics all called it kitsch, everyone thought I was crazy to buy them.”

Quoted in a Forbes magazine interview in 1993 http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/22/us/luis-a-ferre-dies-at-99-pushed-puerto-rican-statehood.html, on his acquisition of art pieces to create the Ponce Museum of Art, now the largest art museum in the Caribbean, and considered one of the best in the Americas.

Luis A. Ferré frase: “My theory was that a city without a newspaper is a city without a soul.”

“My theory was that a city without a newspaper is a city without a soul.”

On acquiring El Día, now the largest newspaper by circulation in Puerto Rico, as quoted by the Associated Press http://www.apnewsarchive.com/2003/Ex-Puerto-Rican-Governor-Ferre-Dies-at-99/id-8cb93046108ad2da5ed0958cda645bfb.

“I hope I will live to see a final meeting of the minds between Puerto Rico and statehood, but [even] if I don't live that long, I am certain it will happen.”

As quoted by the Associated Press http://www.apnewsarchive.com/2003/Ex-Puerto-Rican-Governor-Ferre-Dies-at-99/id-8cb93046108ad2da5ed0958cda645bfb after the 1998 status referendum in Puerto Rico.

“Reason does not scream. Reason convinces.”

La razón no grita, la razón convence.
Attribution inscribed on the memorial statue in the Puerto Rican Capitol (see right).
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