Sun Yat-sen Quotes

#1. The Revolution has not yet succeeded. Comrades, you must carry on!

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#2. Class war is not the cause of social progress; it is a disease developed in the course of social progress. The cause of the disease is the inability to subsist, and the result of the disease is war.

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#3. The whole world is one family.

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#4. The Chinese people have only family and clan solidarity; they do not have national spirit ... they are just a heap of loose sand ... Other men are the carving knife and serving dish; we are the fish and the meat.

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#5. An individual should not have too much freedom. A nation should have absolute freedom.

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#6. To understand is hard. Once one understands, action is easy.

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#7. When we undertake a task, we should not falter from first to last until the task is accomplished; if we fail, we should not begrudge our lives as a sacrifice-this is what we mean by loyalty. The ancient teaching of loyalty meant sometimes death.

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#8. The World is for All

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#9. In the construction of a country, it is not the practical workers but the idealists and planners that are difficult to find.

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#10. Revolution is not a dinner party.

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#11. Trust is earned by many deeds, and lost by only one.

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#12. To understand is difficult; to act is easy.

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#13. Only powerful people have liberty.

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#14. If the idea of revolution is to win out, it must be through political enlightenment. It is useless to try to impose it by force of arms.

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