Chiang Kai-shek

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Don't be disquieted in time of adversity. Be firm with dignity and self-reliant with vigor.
- Chiang Kai-shek
Collection: Adversity
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We are working for a revolution. If we do not start it by improving the life of the soldiers, all slogans of reforming and improving society are but empty words.
- Chiang Kai-shek
Collection: Soldier
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If one does not act, one cannot understand.
- Chiang Kai-shek
Collection: Doe
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China not only fights for her own independence, but also for the liberation of every oppressed nation. For us, the Atlantic Charter and President Roosevelts proclamation of the Four Freedoms for all peoples are corner-stones of our fighting faith.
- Chiang Kai-shek
Collection: Fighting
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I go walking, and the hills loom above me, range upon range, one against the other. I cannot tell where one begins and another leaves off. But when I talk with God He lifts me up where I can see clearly, where everything has a distinct contour.
- Chiang Kai-shek
Collection: God
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We shall not lightly talk about sacrifice until we are driven to the last extremity which makes sacrifice inevitable.
- Chiang Kai-shek
Collection: Sacrifice
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Give me fifty DC-3's and the Japanese can have the Burma Road.
- Chiang Kai-shek
Collection: Giving
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It is not worth it to sacrifice the interest of the country for the sake of my son.
- Chiang Kai-shek
Collection: Country
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It was entirely due to my mother [a devout Buddhist] and her kindness and perseverance that the family was saved from utter ruin. For a period of 17 years--from the age of 9 until I was 25 years old--my mother never spent a day free from domestic difficulties.
- Chiang Kai-shek
Collection: Mother