Quotes by Ho Minh

• The object of my relationship with Vietnam has been to heal the wounds that exist, particularly among our veterans, and to move forward with a positive relationship,... Apparently some in the Vietnamese government don't want to do that and that's their decision.
• But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy.
• Remember, the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.
• Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.
• Love other human beings as you would love yourself.
• It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.
• Write in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as well as women, even by children.
• I only follow one party: the Vietnamese party.
• You will kill 10 of our men, and we will kill 1 of yours, and in the end it will be you who tire of it.
• You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win.
• When the prison doors are opened, the real dragon will fly out.
• I've never heard of any president being so close to his people.
• The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.