Hồ Chí Minh Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.

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

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.

Love other human beings as you would love yourself.

It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

A poet must learn to wage war.

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

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.

I only follow one party: the Vietnamese Party.

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

despite all our desperate, eternal attempts to separate, contain and mend, categories always leak.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

We tried to change Vietnam. Instead, Vietnam changed us.