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

—  Ho Chi Minh

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

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Vietnamese communist leader and first president of Vietnam 1890–1969

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