Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

All counter-revolutionary wars are unjust, all revolutionary wars are just.

The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.

A Communist must never be opinionated or domineering, thinking that he is good in everything while others are good in nothing; he must never shut himself up in his little room, or brag and boast and lord it over others.

Historical experience is written in blood and iron.

The world is yours, as well as ours, but in the last analysis, it is yours. Young people, full of vigour and vitality, are in the bloom of life, like the sun at eight or nine in the morning. Our hope is placed on you...The world belongs to you. China's future belongs to you.

Napoleon was the best method. Dissolved all representative institutions and it decided who should rule the state with him.