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
A poet must learn to wage war.
Military action without politics is like a tree without a root.
It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.
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.
Colonial atrocities have prepared the soil; it is for socialists to sow the seeds of revolution.
You will kill ten of us, we will kill one of you, but in the end, you will tire of it first.
When the prison doors are opened, the real dragon will fly out.
We have a secret weapon...it is called Nationalism
If you do not condemn colonialism, if you do not side with the colonial people, what kind of revolution are you waging?
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.
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...
It is better to sacrifice everything than to live in slavery!
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.