“Our principle is that the Party commands the gun, and the gun must never be allowed to command the Party.”

—  Mao Zedong

Chapter 9 https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/works/red-book/ch09.htm, originally published in the Problems of War and Strategy (November 6, 1938), Selected Works, Vol. II, p. 224. <br class="br">Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong (The Little Red Book)

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