Mao Zedong Quotes
Without an army for the people, there is nothing for the people.
Mao and other Chinese leaders molded the people into an Army to fight the invading Japanese in WWII after which they were attacked by Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalists. In a remarkable trek of escape the Communists moved across China to escape the nationalists while the Red Army provided protection. Without the Red Army, the Communists would easily have been overrun then and after the Nationalists “escaped” to Taiwan they planned and threatened to invade the mainland. It was the Red Army that kept them at bay, and so the “People’s Army” has an emotional, historical and intellectual impact and role even in 21st Century China when there really are no enemies that would attack China.
Mao Tse-Tung, 1893-1976, Chairman, Communist Party of China, Chinese Revolutionary Leader & Political Philosopher, Founder, The People’s Republic of China, The Little Red Book, Chapter 9, 1964
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Commenting on the hostilities between the Baltic states and the Russian government:
President James Madison expressed a similar sentiment in his first inaugural address.
Monroe was then Secretary of State and the U. S. was at war.
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This was the first exposition of what turned out to be the winning Presidential Campaign strategy in 2004.
Greek invaders were marching on Istanbul
Mao Zedong, also known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese communist revolutionary who was the founder of the People's Republic of China (PRC), which he ruled as the chairman of the Chinese Communist Party from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976. Ideologically a Marxist–Leninist, his theories, military strategies, and political policies are collectively known as Maoism.
