NOT all events that happened in the past maintain their relevance in the present. In 1967, Michael Onorato wrote:

"No event in modern Philippine history has been so neglected as the cabinet crisis of July 17, 1923. During the 1920s, it fired a nation. A generation of Filipinos grew to maturity with Manuel L. Quezon's word ringing in their ears: 'I would rather have a government run like hell by Filipinos, than a government run like heaven by Americans.' It stirred the blood of his countrymen.

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