Class war is not the cause of social progress it is a disease developed in the course of social progress. The cause of the disease is the inability to subsist, and the result of the disease is war.

To understand is hard. Once one understands, action is easy.

When we undertake a task, we should not falter from first to last until the task is accomplished if we fail, we should not begrudge our lives as a sacrifice-this is what we mean by loyalty. The ancient teaching of loyalty meant sometimes death.

An individual should not have too much freedom. A nation should have absolute freedom.

The Chinese people have only family and clan solidarity they do not have national spirit...they are just a heap of loose sand...Other men are the carving knife and serving dish we are the fish and the meat.

It is only after mature deliberation and thorough preparation that I have decided upon the Program of Revolution and defined the procedure of the revolution in three stages. The first is the period of military government the second, the period of political tutelage and the third, the period of constitutional government.

The Revolution has not yet succeeded. Comrades, you must carry on!