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.
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.
To reap a return in ten years, plant trees. To reap a return in 100, cultivate the people.
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.
It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.
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.
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.
Although our fight will be long and hard, our people are resolved to fight till final victory.