It is a very good thing, and a significant one too, to exterminate the bourgeoisie and capitalism in China.

We stand for self-reliance. We hope for foreign aid but cannot be dependent on it; we depend on our own efforts, on the creative power of the whole army and the entire people.

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

Without a People's army, the people have nothing.

Today the whole world depends on communism for its salvation, and China is no exception.

Ours is a people's democratic dictatorship, led by the working class and based on the worker-peasant alliance.

There may be thousands of principles of Marxism, but in the final analysis they can be summed up in one sentence: Rebellion is justified.