Chiang Kai-shek Quotes

We live in the present, we dream of the future and we learn eternal truths from the past.

The Japanese are a disease of the skin. The Communists are a disease of the heart.

War is not only a matter of equipment, artillery, group troops or air force; it is largely a matter of spirit, or morale.

We write our own destiny ...we become what we do.

The sky cannot have two suns.

We are working for a revolution. If we do not start it by improving the life of the soldiers, all slogans of reforming and improving society are but empty words.

Character cannot be counterfeited, nor can it be put on and cast off as if it were a garment to fit the whim of the moment. Day by day we become what we do. This is the supreme law and logic of life.

China is the largest and most ancient of Asiatic countries, but it is not for us boastfully to talk of her right to a position of 'leadership' among those countries.

There are three essential factors in all human activity: spirit, materials, and action.

China has no desire to replace Western imperialism in Asia with an Oriental imperialism or isolationism of its own or anyone else.

If one does not act, one cannot understand.

The rise or fall of Shanghai means the birth or death of the whole nation.

We shall not lightly talk about sacrifice until we are driven to the last extremity which makes sacrifice inevitable.

We become what we do.

Don't be disquieted in time of adversity. Be firm with dignity and self-reliant with vigor.

If imperialism is not banished from the country, China will perish as a nation. If China does not perish, then imperialism cannot remain.

Only a fighting nation can make itself responsible for world peace, and such a nation must organize its material resources and manpower with the highest possible degree of efficiency.

I have often said China is not lacking in material resources. The question is whether we can make full and good use of them.

Give me fifty DC-3's and the Japanese can have the Burma Road.

My good health is due to a soup made of white doves. It is simply wonderful as a tonic.

It is not worth it to sacrifice the interest of the country for the sake of my son.

Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation the source of strength is one's self. When one prays he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.

Patriotism demands of us sustained sacrifice.

Dr. Sun Yat-sen, Father of the Republic, made it his great aim in his revolutionary leadership to secure freedom and equality of status for China among the nations of the world.

We live in the present we dream of the future but we learn eternal truths from the past.

I used to pray that God would do this or that now I pray that God will make His will known to me.

I am convinced that we must train not only the head but the heart and hand as well.