Ho Chí Minh quotes - page 2

Ho Chi Minh was a Vietnamese revolutionary leader and founder of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam). A key figure in the struggle for Vietnamese independence, he played a central role in shaping the country's modern history. He became a symbol of national liberation and left a lasting legacy as a leader of the Vietnamese people. Here are 46 of his quotes:

Though frontiers and mountains stand between us, Proletarians of the whole world come together as one family.

Ho Chí Minh

Under the banner of Marxism-Leninism, let our party, with the seething spirit of an invincible army, unite even more closely, and lead our working people boldly forward to new victories in the struggle for socialist construction in the North and for the reunification of the country.

Ho Chí Minh

Our party has a mass character, and hundreds of thousands of member. Owing to the situation in our country the bulk of Party members spring from the petty bourgeoisie. There is nothing surprising in it. IN the beginning under the influence of bourgeois ideology the stand of some Party members may lack firmness, their outlook may be confused and their thinking not quite correct, but owing to the fact that they have been tempered in the revolution and the war of resistance, our Party members are by and large good militants, faithful to the Party and the revolution. Those Comrades know that those Party members who commit errors will lead the masses into error; therefore, they stand ready to correct any mistake they may make, and this in a timely way, and do not allow small errors accumulate into big ones. They sincerely practice criticism and self-criticism, which makes it possible for them to progress together.

Ho Chí Minh

Revolutionary morality does not fall from the sky. It is developed and consolidated through persevering daily struggle and effort. Like jade, the more it is polished the more it shines. Like gold, it grows ever purer as it foes into the melting pot.

Ho Chí Minh

Revolutionary morality consists in absolute loyalty to the Party and the people.

Ho Chí Minh

Individualism spawns hundreds of dangerous diseases: bureaucratism, commandism, sectarianism, subjectiveness, corruption, waste ... It ties up and blindfolds its victims whose every action is guided by their desire for honor and position, not by concern for the interests of the class and the people.

Ho Chí Minh

To study Marxism-Leninism is to learn the spirit in which one should deal with things, with other people and with oneself. It means to study the universal Marxist-Leninist truths in order to apply them creatively to the practical conditions of our country. We must study with a view to action . Theory must go hand in hand with practice.

Ho Chí Minh

To make the revolution to transform the old society into a new one is a very glorious, but also extremely heavy task, a complex, protracted and hard struggle. Only a strong man can travel a long distance with a heavy load on his back. A revolutionary must have solid foundation of revolutionary morality in order to fulfill his glorious revolutionary task.

Ho Chí Minh

The hour has struck! Raise aloft the banner of insurrection and lead the people throughout the country to overthow the Japanese and the French! The sacred call of the fatherland is resounding in our ears; the ardent blood of our heroic predecessors is seething in our hearts! The fighting spirit of the people is mounting before our eyes! Let us unite and unify our action to overthrow the Japanese and the French.

Ho Chí Minh

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.

Ho Chí Minh

It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.

Ho Chí Minh

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

Ho Chí Minh

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.

Ho Chí Minh

A people who have courageously opposed French domination for more than eighty years, a people who have fought side by side with the Allies against the Fascists during these last years, such a people must be free and independent.

Ho Chí Minh

The entire Vietnamese people are determined to mobilise all their physical and mental strength, to sacrifice their lives and property in order to safeguard their independence and liberty.

Ho Chí Minh

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.

Ho Chí Minh

I only follow one party: the Vietnamese party.

Ho Chí Minh

A people who have courageously opposed French domination for more than eighty years, a people who have fought side by side with the Allies against the Fascists during these last years, such a people must be free and independent. For these reasons, we, members of the Provisional Government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, solemnly declare to the world that Vietnam has the right to be a free and independent country and in fact it already has been so. The entire Vietnamese people are determined to mobilize all their physical and mental strength, to sacrifice their lives and property in order to safeguard their independence and liberty.

Ho Chí Minh