Top 46 Chi Minh Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Chi Minh

#1. Usually, after a disagreement, they suggested i read this or that, often Marx, Lenin, or Engels. I preferred Ho Chi Minh, Kim Il Sung, Che, or Fidel, but i ended up having to get into Marx and Lenin just to understand a lot of the speeches and stuff Huey Newton was putting out.

Assata Shakur

#2. Getting through the intersection involves tracing paths through the parking system, many braided filaments of direction like the Ho Chi Minh trail.

Neal Stephenson

#3. Ho Chi Minh and Vietnam were perfect for Lyndon Johnson: 220 million against 18 million, water buffalo and all. No risk, really.

David Douglas Duncan

#4. I used to hunt as a child but gave up the chase in my 'Ho Ho Ho Chi-Minh, we shall fight and we shall win' chanting and marching days - by which time I had come to share Oscar Wilde's feelings about 'the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.'

Jonathan Dimbleby

#5. I had been a guerrilla leader in World War II. And I used to say that the way to fight the guerrilla was with guerrillas. And I disbelieved that you could by bombing, ah, have any effect on the supplies coming down through the Ho Chi Minh trails.

Roger Hilsman

#6. Through leadership of the fight against French colonialism, Ho Chi Minh had made a name for himself in the international political arena.

Nguyen Cao Ky

#7. Robert Conquest once suggested that 'a curious little volume might be made of the poems of Stalin, Castro, Mao and Ho Chi Minh, with illustrations by A. Hitler.

Martin Amis

#8. And just as there was something of every Vietnamese in Ho Chi Minh so there is something of Ho Chi Minh in almost every present-day Vietnamese, so strong is his imprint on the Vietnamese nation.

Wilfred Burchett

#9. If we had had the privilege of giving hospitality to a Ho Chi Minh, with what respect and interest we would have served him, as a man of vision, as a patriot, a rebel against foreign invaders.

Dorothy Day

#10. I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.

Hanoi Hannah

#11. As in all his subsequent dealings with France, Ho Chi Minh's demands were a model of modesty.

Wilfred Burchett

#12. In the mid-1950s Winston Churchill advised his American friends to recognize that Ho Chi Minh was unbeatable, accept his victory, and try to make the best of it. This the Dulles brothers could not do - because they were Americans.

Stephen Kinzer

#13. Local authorities keep an eye on proceedings. The Saigon Protestant Church in Ho Chi Minh City, for instance, one of the biggest in the country, has to submit a list of its event schedules, financial records and appointments of Church leaders to government officials for their prior approval.

Insight Guides

#14. Ho Chi Minh successfully accomplished his cause to free his country despite the opposition of France and the United States. This achievement required the efforts of a man that was part Lenin, part Gondi, part Confucius, and all Vietnamese.

Chris Diamond

#15. Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and our own Ronald Reagan.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#16. Intellectuals and celebrities venerated monsters like Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Castro, & Ho Chi Minh. The New Left of the 1960s didn't have a change of heart, just a change of icons from Stalin to third world tyrants. The homicidal and sadistic Che Guevara is still held up as a hero ...

Jamie Glazov

#17. 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.

Ho Chi Minh

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

Ho Chi Minh

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

Ho Chi Minh

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

Ho Chi Minh

#21. 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.

Ho Chi Minh

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

Ho Chi Minh

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

Ho Chi Minh

#24. 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.

Ho Chi Minh

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

Ho Chi Minh

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

Ho Chi Minh

#27. 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.

Ho Chi Minh

#28. 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.

Ho Chi Minh

#29. 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.

Ho Chi Minh

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

Ho Chi Minh

#31. A poet must learn to wage war.

Ho Chi Minh

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

Ho Chi Minh

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

Ho Chi Minh

#34. 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.

Ho Chi Minh

#35. 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.

Ho Chi Minh

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

Ho Chi Minh

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

Ho Chi Minh

#38. 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.

Ho Chi Minh

#39. 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.

Ho Chi Minh

#40. 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.

Ho Chi Minh

#41. 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.

Ho Chi Minh