36 Most Inspiring Ho Chí Minh Quotes (INDEPENDENCE)

Top 10 Most Famous Hồ Chí Minh Quotes (BEST)

“Everything depends on the Americans. If they want to make war for 20 years then we shall make war for 20 years. If they want to make peace, we shall make peace and invite them to tea afterwards.”
Hồ Chí Minh

Our resistance will be long and painful, but whatever the sacrifices, however long the struggle, we shall fight to the end, until Vietnam is fully independent and reunified. — Our resistance will be long and painful, but whatever the sacrifices, however long the struggle, we shall fight to the end, until Vietnam is fully **independent** and reunified.

To reap a return in ten years, plant trees. To reap a return in 100, cultivate the people.

Remember, the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability. — 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. — Nothing is more precious than **independence** and liberty.

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.

Love other human beings as you would love yourself. — **Love** other human beings as you would love yourself.

It is better to sacrifice everything than to live in slavery!

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. — 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.

7 Hồ Chí Minh Quotes About Politics

“Mr. Schoenbrun, we have a secret weapon… don’t smile when I tell you this. Our secret weapon is nationalism. To have nationhood, which is a sign of maturity, is greater than any weapons in the world.”
Hồ Chí Minh

I follow only one party the Vietnamese party. — I follow only one party: the Vietnamese party.

It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.

“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.”
Hồ Chí Minh

Military action without politics is like a tree without a root. — Military **action** without politics is like a tree without a root.

Freedom for my people, independence for my country, this is all I want, all what I understand. — **Freedom** for my people, **independence** for my country, this is all I want, all what I understand.

“I only have one desire, the ultimate desire is to make our country completely independent, our people completely free, all compatriots have food to eat, clothes to wear, anyone can study.”
Hồ Chí Minh

4 Hồ Chí Minh Quotes About The Revolution

I and others may be revolutionaries but we are disciples of Mahatma Gandhi, directly or indirectly, nothing more nothing less. — I and others may be revolutionaries but we are disciples of **Mahatma Gandhi**, directly or indirectly, nothing more nothing less.

A revolutionary must have solid foundation of revolutionary morality in order to fulfill his glorious revolutionary task.

Colonial atrocities have prepared the soil; it is for socialists to sow the seeds of revolution.

The revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past. — The revolution is a struggle to the **death** between the **future** and the past.

7 Inspirational Hồ Chí Minh Quotes About Life and Vietnam

“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.”
Hồ Chí Minh

Our mountains will always be, our rivers will always be, our people will always be, The American invaders defeated, we will rebuild our land ten times more beautiful.

I'm very moved to be here today… Our lives are now much better, but Vietnam remains a very poor country. We need to work much harder. — I’m very moved to be here today… Our lives are now much better, but Vietnam remains a very poor country. We need to **work much harder**.

I have a most precious treasure, a heart of steel and blood of ice.

Although our fight will be long and hard, our people are resolved to fight till final victory.

You can do everything you want as long as you have the determination. — You can do everything you want as long as you have the **determination**.

The successes recorded by our Southern compatriots show that the U.S. imperialists, no matter what modern weapons they may have, are not to be feared. — The **successes** recorded by our Southern compatriots show that the U.S. imperialists, no matter what modern weapons they may have, are not to be feared.

3 Hồ Chí Minh Quotes on Poetry and War

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. — **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**.

Today we should make poems including iron and steel And the poet should know how to lead an attack.

5 Thought-provoking Hồ Chí Minh Quotes that will Make You Think

“It is well known that the black race is the most oppressed and most exploited of the human family. It is well known that the spread of capitalism and the discovery of the New World had as an immediate result the rebirth of slavery which was, for centuries, a scourge for the Negroes and a bitter disgrace for mankind. What everyone does not perhaps know, is that after sixty-five years of so-called emancipation, American Negroes still endure atrocious moral and material sufferings, of which the most cruel and horrible is the custom of lynching.”
Hồ Chí Minh

If you do not condemn colonialism, if you do not side with the colonial people, what kind of revolution are you waging?

Among the collection of crimes of American 'civilization,' lynching has a special place of honor. — Among the collection of crimes of American ‘civilization,’ lynching has a special place of honor.

“Imperialism has now reached a degree of almost scientific perfection. It uses White workers to conquer the non-white workers of The Colonies. Then, it hurls the non-white workers of one colony against those of another non-white colony. Finally, it relies on the Colored workers of the colonies to rule the White workers. Recently, White French soldiers near mutiny in the occupied Ruhr of Germany, were surrounded by French African soldiers, and colored native light-infantry were sent against White German strikers.”
Hồ Chí Minh