Vietnamese Independence Quotes

The French colonialists must know that the Vietnamese people do not want bloodshed, that they love peace. But should they have to sacrifice millions of combatants, and fight for many years to defend the independence of their country and keep their children free, then they will do it. The resistance is sure to win.

If we had had the privilege of giving hospitality to a Ho Chi Minh, with what respect and interest we would have served him, as a man of vision, as a patriot, a rebel against foreign invaders.

As in all his subsequent dealings with France, Ho Chi Minh's demands were a model of modesty.

France turned a deaf ear to the demands, but Ho had succeeded in attracting great publicity in progressive French circles to the situation in Indochina.

Through leadership of the fight against French colonialism, Ho Chi Minh had made a name for himself in the international political arena.

It is not a handful of rebels we are facing, but a people resolved to defend their freedom. Here everybody is Viet Minh. Whatever happens, you cannot destroy a whole people.

Ho, or Nguyen Ai Quoc, thus became the first Vietnamese communist and a founding member of the French Communist party, born out of the split.

The Vietnamese see their history as an unending series of struggles of resistance to aggression, by the Chinese, the Mongols, the Japanese, the French, and now the Americans.