Hồ Chí Minh cytaty

„Indywidualizm jest czymś bardzo fałszywym i przewrotnym: zręcznie sprowadza na złą drogę.”

Źródło: testament; cyt. za Artur Dmochowski, Wietnam: wojna bez zwycięzców, Kraków 1991, s. 144

„Nasza partia to partia komunistów indochińskich, ale musimy również dążyć do wyzwolenia całej Południowo-Wschodniej Azji.”

Źródło: Artur Dmochowski, Wietnam: wojna bez zwycięzców, Kraków 1991, s. 15

„Zabijcie dziesięciu naszych ludzi, a my zabijemy jednego z waszych. To wy pierwsi będziecie mieli dosyć.”

na VI zjeździe Komunistycznej Partii Indochin (1949).
Źródło: Artur Dmochowski, Wietnam: wojna bez zwycięzców, Kraków 1991, s. 42

“Nothing is more precious than Independence and Liberty.”

Źródło: Artur Dmochowski, Wietnam: wojna bez zwycięzców, Kraków 1991, s. 134

Hồ Chí Minh: Cytaty po angielsku

“Our era being a civilized, revolutionary era, one must rely all the more on the force of the collective, of society, in all undertakings. More than ever the individual cannot stand apart but must join the collective, join society.”

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

“All men are created equal. They are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness".
This immortal statement was made in the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America in 1776. In a broader sense, this means: All the peoples on the Earth are equal from birth, all the peoples have a right to live, to be happy and to be free.
The Declaration of the French Revolution made in 1791 on the Rights of Man and the Citizen also states: "All men are born free and with equal rights, and must always remain free and have equal rights.”

"On Revolutionary Morality" (1958)
1950's, On Revolutionary Morality (1958)

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

Those are undeniable truths.
Vietnamese Proclamation of Independence (2 September 1945), Ho Chi Minh, Selected Works (1960-1962), Vol. 3, pp. 17-21

“Nothing is more precious than independence and freedom… Independence without freedom is worse than no independence.”

Third National Congress of the Vietnam Workers' Party (Sept. 9, 1960)
Ho Chi Minh on Revolution, Selected Writings, 1920-66
1960's

“Remember that the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.”

As quoted in Vietnam: The Betrayal of a Revolution https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1991/10/20/vietnam-the-betrayal-of-a-revolution/baef22ef-5ee7-43f0-97d3-7dc02ab24533/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.865c3958cb61 (20 October 1991), by Bui Tin

“The Trotskyists are not only the enemies of Communism, they are also the enemies of democracy and of progress. They are the most infamous traitors and spies.”

As quoted in From Colonialism to Communism : A Case History of North Vietnam (1964) by Văn Chí Hoàng, p. 37

“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.”

From a letter sent to the Communist Party of Vietnam, quoted in Vietnam & Trotskyism https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/document/vietnam/pirani/hochiminh.htm (1987)

“In a war, to win a victory or suffer a defeat are common things. The essential is that we must win final victory. We must help all officers and men and the people to bear that firmly in mind so that they will not be self-complacent when winning and disappointed when losing, but instead will always make utmost efforts to overcome difficulties and hardships and advance towards final victory.”

"On Revolutionary Morality" (1958)
1950's, On Revolutionary Morality (1958)

“I am a straightforward man, with no crime on my conscience,
But I was accused of being a spy for China
So life, you see, is never a very smooth business
And now the present bristles with difficulties.”

Instructions Given at the Conference (Fall 1950)
1950's

“Obviously, Lenin meant that the stage of fierce civil war and the restriction of democracy imposed on the Soviet people were only provisional and had to be abolished as soon as the new regime was consolidated.”

"Hard is the Road of Life"
1950's

“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.”

"Development of Ideological Unity Among Marxist Leninist Parties" (August 3, 1956)
1950s

“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.”

Kontekst: 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 mobilise all their physical and mental strength, to sacrifice their lives and property in order to safeguard their independence and liberty.

Vietnamese Proclamation of Independence (2 September 1945), Ho Chi Minh, Selected Works (1960-1962), Vol. 3, pp. 17-21

“Our cause is just our people are united from North to South; we have a tradition of undaunted struggle and the great sympathy and support of the fraternal socialist countries and progressive people all over the world. We shall win!”

Vietnamese Proclamation of Independence (2 September 1945), Ho Chi Minh, Selected Works (1960-1962), Vol. 3, pp. 17-21
Kontekst: 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 mobilise all their physical and mental strength, to sacrifice their lives and property in order to safeguard their independence and liberty.

“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.”

"Appeal to Compatriots" (1966)
1960's

“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.”

"Thirty Years of Activity in the Party" (1960)
1960's