“Nothing is more precious than Independence and Liberty.”

—  Ho Chi Minh

Political slogan, quoted in Ho Chi Minh and His Vietnam : A Personal Memoir (1972) by Jean Sainteny, p. 172

Variant translation: Nothing is more valuable than freedom and independence.

World Marxist Review: Problems of Peace and Socialism (1979), p. 91

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Vietnamese communist leader and first president of Vietnam 1890–1969

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