To win countrywide victory is only the first step in a long march of ten thousand li.... The Chinese revolution is great, but the road after the revolution will be longer, the work greater and more arduous. This must be made clear now in the Party. The comrades must be helped to remain modest, prudent and free from arrogance and rashness in their style of work. The comrades must be helped to preserve the style of plain living and hard struggle.

Revolution is a drama of passion. We did not win the people over by appealing to reason but by developing hope, trust, fraternity.

The revolutionary war is a war of the masses; it can be waged only by mobilizing the masses and relying on them.

If we have a correct theory but merely prate about it, pigeonhole it and do not put it into practice, then that theory, however good, is of no significance.

It is right to rebel against reactionaries.

The socialist system will eventually replace the capitalist system; this is an objective law independent of man's will. However much the reactionaries try to hold back the wheel of history, eventually revolution will take place and will inevitably triumph.

Our attitude towards ourselves should be 'to be satiable in learning' and towards others 'to be tireless in teaching.