Minh Quotes

#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. You know, I met a wise man centuries ago in China who said to me, 'He who lets fear rule him, has fear for a master. (Acheron)
Confucius? (Talon)
No, Minh-Quan. He was a fisherman who used to sell what I'm told was the best zong zi ever made. (Acheron)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

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

Hanoi Hannah

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

Wilfred Burchett

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. 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

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

Ho Chi Minh

#19. 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

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

Ho Chi Minh

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

Ho Chi Minh

#23. Money, as a sort of drug, has become a great danger to our development. There will be no progress in our country unless we win the fight against corruption. This is a question of survival for the Communist Party of Vietnam and for socialism.

Nguyen Minh Triet

#24. 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

#25. You and I are close, we intertwine; you may stand on the other side of the hill once in awhile, but you may also be me while remaining what you are and what I am not.

Trinh T. Minh-ha

#26. The main difference lies in wage levels, which is because our workers are not yet as well trained as in other countries. We are a poor country. This is why we must accept the conditions that prevail in international markets. But our trade unions do represent the rights of workers.

Nguyen Minh Triet

#27. Speaking, writing, and discoursing are not mere acts of communication; they are above all acts of compulsion. Please follow me. Trust me, for deep feeling and understanding require total committment.

Trinh T. Minh-ha

#28. The world is a big place, and there are many paths that lead to success. This applies to both political and economic concepts. For this reason, we see no need to stoically pursue the Chinese, American or French way. But we have socialism in common with China.

Nguyen Minh Triet

#29. A poet must learn to wage war.

Ho Chi Minh

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

Ho Chi Minh

#31. Despite all our desperate, eternal attempts to separate, contain and mend, categories always leak.

Trinh T. Minh-ha

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

Ho Chi Minh

#33. It Went By Me something very beautiful just went by me something not to tell in words in feelings so fragile so wild something yet to tell is no longer why and when it left i can't tell.

Trinh T. Minh-ha

#34. 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

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

Ho Chi Minh

#36. 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

#37. I believe firmly in reconciliation among Vietnamese to avoid unnecessary shedding of the blood of Vietnamese.

Duong Van Minh

#38. 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

#39. 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

#40. Home for the exile in a secular and contingent world is always provisional

Trinh T. Minh-ha

#41. 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

#42. 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

#43. 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

#44. He belongs to that fraction of humanity which for centuries has made other fractions the objects of contempt and exploitation, then, when it saw the handwriting on the wall, set about to give them back their humanity.

Trinh T. Minh-ha

#45. German businesspeople have invested a great deal in our country, and trade is flourishing. We want to speed up economic cooperation. Your country is a large, important provider of aid, and it has done a great deal to reduce the poverty of many Vietnamese.

Nguyen Minh Triet

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

Ho Chi Minh

#47. I looked back all the time, too much, too often. Like Rose, I would be circling my mother the rest of my life.

Bich Minh Nguyen

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

Ho Chi Minh

#49. We [Vietnam] happen to offer good investment opportunities for foreigners, although this is not a one-way street. Both we and the foreign investors benefit greatly as a result.

Nguyen Minh Triet

#50. We wait here to meet the Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam to discuss together a ceremony of orderly transfer of power so as to avoid any unnecessary bloodshed in the population.

Duong Van Minh

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

Ho Chi Minh

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

Ho Chi Minh

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

Ho Chi Minh

#54. 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

#55. If you want to rule your life with obligations to other people, that's you.

Bich Minh Nguyen

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

Ho Chi Minh

#57. We respect the freedom of all citizens. Young people should have fun, but there is no tolerance of drug abuse. Drugs have become a serious problem in Vietnam. This is why we have very strict penalties for any sort of drug dealing.

Nguyen Minh Triet

#58. 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

#59. I read to be alone. I read so as not to be alone.

Bich Minh Nguyen

#60. 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

#61. We have been waiting for you so that we could turn over the government.

Duong Van Minh

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

Ho Chi Minh

#63. We also have no taboos against freedom of expression. Although I am president, I must confront the criticism of party members in my election district once every three months. In addition, people pay close attention to what my wife does and how my children live.

Nguyen Minh Triet

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

Ho Chi Minh

#65. 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

#66. 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

#67. I often have discussions with people who demand pluralism and much more. One can discuss these issues, but only within the framework of the law.

Nguyen Minh Triet