Ho Chi Minh Quotations

Love other human beings as you would love yourself.

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.

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.

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

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.

It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.

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.

Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.

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

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.

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.

I only follow one party: the Vietnamese Party.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

A poet must learn to wage war.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Imperialism has now reached a degree of almost scientific perfection. It uses White workers to conquer the non-white workers of The Colonies. Then, it hurls the non-white workers of one colony against those of another non-white colony. Finally, it relies on the Colored workers of the colonies to rule the White workers. Recently, White French soldiers near mutiny in the occupied Ruhr of Germany, were surrounded by French African soldiers, and colored native light-infantry were sent against White German strikers...

It is better to sacrifice everything than to live in slavery!

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.

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.