The Best Chiang Kai Shek quotes

It is not worth it to sacrifice the interest of the country for the sake of my son.–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 to a position of ‘leadership’ among those countries.–Chiang Kai — Shek

For many centuries Chinese society has been free of class distinctions such as are found even in advanced democracies.–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

The final outcome of a war is often determined by the degree of initiative shown on each side.–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

We become what we do. — Chiang Kai

If imperialism is not banished from the country, China will perish as a nation. If China does not perish, then imperialism cannot remain.–Chiang Kai — Shek

The sky cannot have two suns.–Chiang Kai — Shek

Give me fifty DC–3’s and the Japanese can have the Burma Road.–Chiang Kai — Shek

If one does not act, one cannot understand.–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 of the factors of importance.–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 of them.–Chiang Kai — Shek

We write our own destiny …we become what we do.–Chiang Kai — Shek

Contempt for China on the part of the enemy is his weak point. Knowledge of this weak point is our strong point.–Chiang Kai — Shek

China has no desire to replace Western imperialism in Asia with an Oriental imperialism or isolationism of its own or anyone else.–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 of the individual, his thoughts and actions become a thing of the past.–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 reforming and improving society are but empty words.–Chiang Kai — Shek

The Japanese are a disease of the skin. The Communists are a disease of the heart.–Chiang Kai — Shek

Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation the source of strength is one’s self. When one prays he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.–Chiang Kai — Shek

Only a fighting nation can make itself responsible for world peace, and such a nation must organize its material resources and manpower with the highest possible degree of efficiency.–Chiang Kai — Shek

Patriotism demands of us sustained sacrifice.–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 morale.–Chiang Kai — Shek

Government acquisition of food supplies in time of war is no less important than conscription. Equity is the fundamental principle applicable to both these essential phases of war administration.–Chiang Kai — Shek

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

The May Fourth movement profoundly influenced a generation of Chinese and was the genesis of communism in China. — Laura Tyson Li

My good health is due to a soup made of white doves. It is simply wonderful as a tonic.–Chiang Kai — Shek