Ho Chi Minh Quotes

#1. It is better to sacrifice everything than to live in slavery!

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#2. Today we should make poems including iron and steel And the poet should know how to lead an attack.

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#3. It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.

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#4. Colonial atrocities have prepared the soil; it is for socialists to sow the seeds of revolution.

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#5. Love other human beings as you would love yourself.

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#6. The rice grain suffers under the blow of the pestle. But admire its whiteness once the order is over. So it is with men and the world we live in. To be a man one must suffer the blows of misfortune.

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#7. You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win.

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#8. Our mountains will always be, our rivers will always be, our people will always be, The American invaders defeated, we will rebuild our land ten times more beautiful.

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#9. Every house was festooned with flowers and with lanterns. On the national day, the whole country went wild with joy, But on that very day, I was placed in chains and transferred: The wind remains contrary to the flight of the eagle.

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#10. Remember, the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.

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#11. We have a secret weapon ... it is called Nationalism

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#12. I'm very moved to be here today, ... Our lives are now much better, but Vietnam remains a very poor country. We need to work much harder.

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#13. But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy.

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#14. Military action without politics is like a tree without a root.

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#15. I only follow one party: the Vietnamese party.

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#16. Write in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as well as women, even by children.

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#17. I and others may be revolutionaries but we are disciples of Mahatma Gandhi, directly or indirectly, nothing more nothing less.

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#18. To reap a return in ten years, plant trees. To reap a return in 100, cultivate the people.

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#19. The great victory of April 30 represents the triumph of the entire nation, of justice over brutality and of humanity over tyranny.

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#20. The object of my relationship with Vietnam has been to heal the wounds that exist, particularly among our veterans, and to move forward with a positive relationship, ... Apparently some in the Vietnamese government don't want to do that and that's their decision.

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#21. Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.

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#22. Although our fight will be long and hard, our people are resolved to fight till final victory.

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#23. You will kill 10 of our men, and we will kill 1 of yours, and in the end it will be you who tire of it.

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#24. When the prison doors are opened, the real dragon will fly out.

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#25. You will kill ten of us, we will kill one of you, but in the end, you will tire of it first.

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#26. The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.

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#27. Everything depends on the Americans. If they want to make war for 20 years then we shall make war for 20 years. If they want to make peace, we shall make peace and invite them to tea afterwards.

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#28. Our resistance will be long and painful, but whatever the sacrifices, however long the struggle, we shall fight to the end, until Vietnam is fully independent and reunified.

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#29. If you do not condemn colonialism, if you do not side with the colonial people, what kind of revolution are you waging?

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#30. A poet must learn to wage war.

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