Ho Chi Minh
Ho Chi Minh
Hồ Chí Minh, Southern Vietnamese pronunciation: ; 19 May 1890 – 2 September 1969; Chữ nôm: 胡志明), born Nguyễn Sinh Cung, also known as Nguyễn Tất Thành and Nguyễn Ái Quốc, was a Vietnamese Communist revolutionary leader who was prime ministerand presidentof the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. He was a key figure in the foundation of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1945, as well as the People's Army of Vietnamand the Việt Cộngduring the Vietnam War...
NationalityVietnamese
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth19 May 1890
CityKim Lien, Vietnam
CountryVietnam
Ho Chi Minh quotes about
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.
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.
Remember, the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.
Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.
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.
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...
To reap a return in ten years, plant trees. To reap a return in 100, cultivate the people.
We have a secret weapon...it is called Nationalism
Colonial atrocities have prepared the soil; it is for socialists to sow the seeds of revolution.
When the prison doors are opened, the real dragon will fly out.
You will kill ten of us, we will kill one of you, but in the end, you will tire of it first.
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.
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.