Mao Zedong — "We must oppose all tendencies to overestimate ourselves and underestimate the en…"

"We must not only be good at destroying the old world, we must also be good at building the new."

"The advanced people are like a general, and the backward people are like a soldier. The general must be brave and resolute, and the soldier must be loyal and obedient."

"With regard to the question of the extermination of the landlord class, some people ask: Is it not too cruel? We answer: No, it is not. The landlords are a parasitic class, they have exploited and opp…"

"The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the U.S. reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn't. Of course, the atom bomb is a weapon of mass slaughter, but the outcome of a w…"

"It is necessary to maintain the greatest revolutionary enthusiasm and the firmest determination to win."