Chiang Kai-shek Quotes

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

  Chiang Kai-shek

  Dream, Learning, Past

  "Republic of China culture wakens in former capital" by Tracy You, www.cnn.com. January 22, 2013.

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

  Chiang Kai-shek

  Heart, Skins, Disease

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• If when I die, I am still a dictator, I will certainly go down into the oblivion of all dictators. If, on the other hand, I succeed in establishing a truly stable foundation for a democratic government, I will live forever in every home in China.

  Chiang Kai-shek

  Home, Government, Hands

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

  Chiang Kai-shek

  Positive, Writing, Destiny

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• The sky cannot have two suns.

  Chiang Kai-shek

  Leadership, Sky, Two

  c.1945 Quoted in Ross Merrill Mao (1993) ch.10.

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

  Chiang Kai-shek

  War, Air, Groups

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• Democracy is liberty - a liberty which does not infringe on the liberty nor encroach on the rights of others; a liberty which maintains strict discipline, and makes law its guarantee and the basis of its exercise. This alone is true liberty; this alone can produce true democracy.

  Chiang Kai-shek

  Exercise, Rights, Law

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• Mao is a sometime Yin sometime Yang strange man, he has a soft-as-cotton outer layer, but at the same time has sharp needles hiding inside... I do not think he could achieve anything, at the end he will be crushed inside my palm.

  Chiang Kai-shek

  Men, Thinking, Yang

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• 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.

  Chiang Kai-shek

  Character, Law, Logic

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

  Chiang Kai-shek

  Adversity, Self, Challenges

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• 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.

  Chiang Kai-shek

  Soldier, Revolution, Empty

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• If one does not act, one cannot understand.

  Chiang Kai-shek

  Doe, Ifs

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

  Chiang Kai-shek

  Country, Doe, Imperialism

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

  Chiang Kai-shek

  Fall, Mean, Birth

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

  Chiang Kai-shek

  Essentials, Three, Spirit

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• China not only fights for her own independence, but also for the liberation of every oppressed nation. For us, the Atlantic Charter and President Roosevelts proclamation of the Four Freedoms for all peoples are corner-stones of our fighting faith.

  Chiang Kai-shek

  Fighting, Independence, President

  "The voice of China; speeches of Generalissimo and Madame Chiang Kai-shek between December 7, 1941, and October 10, 1943, including some recent messages to British leaders and the British people". Book by Hutchinson & co. ltd, 1944.

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• We become what we do.

  Chiang Kai-shek

  Doing Your Best

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• I go walking, and the hills loom above me, range upon range, one against the other. I cannot tell where one begins and another leaves off. But when I talk with God He lifts me up where I can see clearly, where everything has a distinct contour.

  Chiang Kai-shek

  God, Hills, Range

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• 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.

  Chiang Kai-shek

  Country, Ancient, China

  "The voice of China ; speeches of Generalissimo and Madame Chiang Kai-shek between December 7, 1941, and October 10, 1943, including some recent messages to British leaders and the British people". Book by Hutchinson & CO., 1944.

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• 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.

  Chiang Kai-shek

  Fighting, Degrees, World

  "The voice of China ; speeches of Generalissimo and Madame Chiang Kai-shek between December 7, 1941, and October 10, 1943, including some recent messages to British leaders and the British people". Book by Hutchinson & CO., 1944.

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

  Chiang Kai-shek

  Desire, Asia, Imperialism

  "The voice of China; speeches of Generalissimo and Madame Chiang Kai-shek between December 7, 1941, and October 10, 1943, including some recent messages to British leaders and the British people". Book by Hutchinson & co. ltd, 1944.

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

  Chiang Kai-shek

  Sacrifice, Lasts, Driven

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

  Chiang Kai-shek

  Giving, Fifty, Aviation

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• You must all be aware that modern war is not a mere matter of military operations. It involves the whole strength and all the resources of the nation. Not only soldiers, but also all citizens without exception, take part.

  Chiang Kai-shek

  Military, War, Soldier

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

  Chiang Kai-shek

  Use, Resources, China

  "The voice of China ; speeches of Generalissimo and Madame Chiang Kai-shek between December 7, 1941, and October 10, 1943, including some recent messages to British leaders and the British people". Book by Hutchinson & CO., 1944.

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