Ho Chi Minh

Ho Chi Minh (1892-1969), also Nguyen Al Quoc, was a Vietnamese political leader who founded the Communist Party of Vietnam in France in 1918. He became head of Viet Minh movement which sought Vietnam's independence from France. He became prime minister in 1953 and president of 1954 of North Vietnam. He also wrote poetry and devoted to seeming reunification of North and South Vietnam.

Wisdom & Quotes

• If we have to fight, we shall fight. You will kill ten of our men, and we will kill one of yours; and in the end, it will be you who tire of it.

- speaking about the Vietnam War to French negotiators

• Our mountains will always be,

our Rivers will always Be,
our people will always be,
The American invaders defeated,
We will rebuild our Land ten times more beautiful.
- prison diary, Poems

• Today we should make poems including Iron and steel

And the poet should know how
To lead an attack.
- on reading Anthology of a Thousand Poets

• Military action without politics is like a tree without a root.
• Every house was festooned with

Flowers and with lanterns.
On the national day, the whole Country went wild with joy,
But on that very day, I was placed
In chains and transferred:
The wind remains contrary to the Flight of the eagle.

• Colonial atrocities have prepared the soil;

it is for socialists to sow the seeds of revolution.

• Although our fight will be long and hard, our people are resolved to fight till final victory.
• We love peace, but we are not afraid of war.

Guo Moruo