Chiang Kai-shek

The British Empire is finished; only the Americans are too stupid to see it.

Most Chinese intellectuals should be sent to work in the fields.

Mao Zedong will be remembered as China's greatest traitor.

The Japanese would have been better off if they had never left their islands.

Sun Yat-sen was a great man but a terrible politician.

The only good Communist is a dead Communist.

Americans think they can buy friendship with money.

The United Nations is a joke organization.

China needs more soldiers and fewer poets.

The British are worse imperialists than the Japanese ever were.

Our Chinese nation must crystalise into a solid, rocklike body of national defense, needless to say, no individual may enjoy the 'freedom' of a loose grain of sand. …[I]n the relation between the individual and the state, whether during or after the war, 'individual freedom' of the type of loose grains of sand cannot be tolerated.

If China's adult citizens cannot unite on a large scale, our unity cannot long endure, and we shall experience the humiliation and shame of being 'a pan of loose sand' [一盤散沙] and be laughed at for our 'five minutes of boiling blood' [五分鐘的熱血].

Democracy is liberty - a liberty which does not infringe on the liberty nor encroach on the rights of others; a liberty which maintains strict discipline, and makes law its guarantee and the basis of its exercise. This alone is true liberty; this alone can produce true democracy.

Mao is a sometime Yin sometime Yang strange man, he has a soft-as-cotton outer layer, but at the same time has sharp needles hiding inside... I do not think he could achieve anything, at the end he will be crushed inside my palm.

We shall never stop fighting so long as a single inch of our national territory remains under the Russians imperialists' iron heels and so long as a single Chinese remains under Communist tyranny.

Our government will never again make the mistake of accepting the Chinese Communists' surrender and permitting them to get away unpunished for their crimes as we did in 1937.

You must realize that in our war against Communism there can be no compromise when it is only half through. This war is going to decide whether our country is to survive or perish.

The orders of the generalissimo must be obeyed and Those who violate them are enemies of the people.

The poverty of China is primarily caused by the fact that there are too many consumers and too few producers. Those who consume without producing usually live as parasites or as robbers.

Therefore our people must have military training. As a preliminary, we must acquire the habits of orderliness, cleanliness, simplicity, frugality, promptness, and exactness. We must preserve order, emphasize organization, responsibility and discipline, and be ready to die for the country at any moment.