Ho Chi Minh Quotes

• It is better to sniff France’s dung for a while than eat China’s all our lives.

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• Let him who has a rifle use his rifle, let him who has a sword use his sword! And let those who have no sword take up pick-axes and sticks.

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

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

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• Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.

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• Love other human beings as you would love yourself.

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• I’ve never heard of any president being so close to his people.

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• I only follow one party: the Vietnamese party.

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• 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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• It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.

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Ho Chi Minh (15)

Birth:	19th May, 1890
Death:	2nd September, 1969
Nationality:	Vietnamese
Profession:	Politician, Revolutionary

About

Ho Chi Minh was born in Kim Liên, Nghệ An Province, Vietnam. He was a Vietnamese Communist revolutionary leader. He was the first president of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam from 1945–1969. He was a key figure in the foundation of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1945, as well as the People's Army of Vietnam and the Việt Cộng during the Vietnam War. He wrote several books include: Down with colonialism!, Ho Chi Minh: selected articles and speeches, 1920-1967, and On revolution; selected writings, 1920-66.

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