We Communists are like seeds and the people are like the soil. Wherever we go, we must unite with the people, take root and blossom among them.

Many who have read Marxist books have become renegades from the revolution, whereas illiterate workers often grasp Marxism very well.

New things have to experience difficulties and setbacks as they grow.

What is basic guerilla strategy? Guerilla strategy must be based primarily on alertness, mobility, and attack. It must be adjusted to the enemy situation, the terrain, the existing lines of communication, the relative strengths, the weather, and the situation of the people.

Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.

Rivers and mountains are beautiful and made heroes bow and compete to catch the girl- lovely earth. Yet the emperors Shih Huang and Wu Ti were barely able to write. The first emperors of the Tang and Sung dynasties were crude. Genghis Khan, man of his epoch and favored by heaven, knew only how to hunt the great eagle. They are all gone. Only today are we men of feeling.

Our stand is that of the proletariat and of the masses. For members of the Communist Party, this means keeping to the stand of the Party, keeping to Party spirit and Party policy.