Chiang Kai-shek

China is the largest and most ancient of Asiatic countries, but it is not for us boastfully to talk of her right…

— Chiang Kai-shek

My long struggles as a soldier of the Chinese Revolution have forced me to realize the necessity of facing hard facts. There…

— Chiang Kai-shek

The modern world is one wherein every nation has to develop the strength of which its citizens are capable. The independent status…

— Chiang Kai-shek

You must all be aware that modern war is not a mere matter of military operations. It involves the whole strength and…

— Chiang Kai-shek

I have implicit faith in Sun Yat-sen, not because I am his blind follower, but because he really arouses the deepest respect…

— Chiang Kai-shek

In the early days of the Russian Revolution in 1917, I was completely in sympathy with it. I felt that it established…

— Chiang Kai-shek

I have often said China is not lacking in material resources. The question is whether we can make full and good use…

— Chiang Kai-shek

Japan cannot conquer China with America in her rear, Soviet Russia on her right and England on her left - her most…

— Chiang Kai-shek

Character cannot be counterfeited, nor can it be put on and cast off as if it were a garment to fit the…

— Chiang Kai-shek

Externally China desires independence, internally she seeks to maintain her existence as a nation; China therefore strives to loose the bonds that…

— Chiang Kai-shek

Dr. Sun Yat-sen, Father of the Republic, made it his great aim in his revolutionary leadership to secure freedom and equality of…

— Chiang Kai-shek

China, with her five thousand years of history, her vast territory and her enormous population stands like a mountain peak among the…

— Chiang Kai-shek

China not only fights for her own independence, but also for the liberation of every oppressed nation. For us, the Atlantic Charter…

— Chiang Kai-shek

My good health is due to a soup made of white doves. It is simply wonderful as a tonic.

— Chiang Kai-shek

Modern warfare is by no means merely a matter of military operations. Economic affairs stand together with them in the first rank…

— Chiang Kai-shek

We Chinese are instinctively democratic, and Dr. Sun's objective of universal suffrage evokes from all Chinese a ready and unhesitating response.

— Chiang Kai-shek

Give me fifty DC-3's and the Japanese can have the Burma Road.

— Chiang Kai-shek

We shall not lightly talk about sacrifice until we are driven to the last extremity which makes sacrifice inevitable.

— Chiang Kai-shek

It is not worth it to sacrifice the interest of the country for the sake of my son.

— Chiang Kai-shek

I have always told my subordinates that when they commit any mistakes, the blame must be laid on the superior officers.

— Chiang Kai-shek

War is not only a matter of equipment, artillery, group troops or air force; it is largely a matter of spirit, or…

— Chiang Kai-shek

If when I die, I am still a dictator, I will certainly go down into the oblivion of all dictators. If, on…

— Chiang Kai-shek

We are working for a revolution. If we do not start it by improving the life of the soldiers, all slogans of…

— Chiang Kai-shek

We live in the present, we dream of the future and we learn eternal truths from the past.

— Chiang Kai-shek

In ancient China, self-government was highly developed both in community life and in personal life. The custom of mutual protection and assistance…

— Chiang Kai-shek