Ho Chi 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.

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 Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.

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.

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.

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.

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

A poet must learn to wage war.

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.

I only follow one party: the Vietnamese Party.

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