Chiang Kai-shek Quotes

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

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

Character cannot be counterfeited, nor can it be put on and cast off as if it were a garment to fit the whim of the moment. Day by day we become what we do. This is the supreme law and logic of life.

If one does not act, one cannot understand.

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

You must all be aware that modern war is not a mere matter of military operations. It involves the whole strength and all the resources of the nation. Not only soldiers, but also all citizens without exception, take part.

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

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.

There are three essential factors in all human activity: spirit, materials, and action.

The rise or fall of Shanghai means the birth or death of the whole nation.

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

We write our own destiny ...we become what we do.

The sky cannot have two suns.

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.

China has no desire to replace Western imperialism in Asia with an Oriental imperialism or isolationism of its own or anyone else.

Don't be disquieted in time of adversity. Be firm with dignity and self-reliant with vigor.

The Japanese are a disease of the skin. The Communists are a disease of the heart.

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.

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.

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.

Landowners and influential men of all kinds, especially members of political councils, ought to set an example to the people. The young members of rich families should offer themselves for military service. If not one of two sons, at least one of three sons should be ready to do so.

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.

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