The commanders and fighters of the entire Chinese People's Liberation Army absolutely must not relax in the least their will to fight; any thinking that relaxes the will to fight and belittles the enemy is wrong.

In a suitable temperature, an egg becomes a chicken, and there are no chickens born of stones.

To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve it.

Let the ancient serve the present, let the foreign serve the national; by developing that which has been accomplished one creates something that is new.

Deaths have benefits. They can fertilise the ground.

In transforming backward agricultural China into an advanced industrialized country, we are confronted with arduous tasks and our experience is far from adequate. So we must be good at learning.

Every comrade must be brought to understand that the supreme test of the words and deeds of a Communist is whether they conform with the highest interests and enjoy the support of the overwhelming majority of the people.