Quotes by Chiang Kai-shek

About Chiang Kai-shek:

Chiang Kai-shek is known as Chiang Chung-cheng (???, Jiang Zhongzheng) or Chiang Chieh-shih (???, Jiang Jieshi) in Standard Chinese. Chiang was an influential member of the Kuomintang (KMT), the Chinese Nationalist Party, and was a close ally of Sun Yat-sen. He became the Commandant of the Kuomintang's Whampoa Military Academy and took Sun's place as leader of the KMT when Sun died in 1925. In 1926, Chiang led the Northern Expedition to unify the country, becoming China's nominal leader. He served as Chairman of the National Military Council of the Nationalist government of the Republic of China (ROC) from 1928 to 1948. Chiang led China in the Second Sino-Japanese War (the Chinese theater of World War II), consolidating power from the party's former regional warlords. Unlike Sun Yat-sen, Chiang Kai-shek was socially conservative, promoting traditional Chinese culture in the New Life Movement and rejecting western democracy and the nationalist democratic socialism that Sun embraced in favour of an authoritarian government.
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China is the largest and most ancient of Asiatic countries, but it is not for us boastfully to talk of her right to a position of 'leadership' among those countries.

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In ancient China, self-government was highly developed both in community life and in personal life. The custom of mutual protection and assistance was widespread. The organization and regulations of local self-government were clearly defined and stri...

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Our late Leader, Dr. Sun Yat-sen, with his universal sympathy for all oppressed and his profound understanding of Jesus' revolutionary spirit of love and sacrifice, carried on his revolutionary work for forty years and brought about at last the liber...

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We become what we do.

Chiang Kai-shek

What we have seen of recent American action in the Pacific, the bombing of Tokyo and the engagements in the Coral Sea, off Midway Island and at Dutch Harbour, has been sufficient indication that America is beginning to discharge her supremely importa...

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There are three essential factors in all human activity: spirit, materials, and action.

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China has no desire to replace Western imperialism in Asia with an Oriental imperialism or isolationism of its own or anyone else.

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If imperialism is not banished from the country, China will perish as a nation. If China does not perish, then imperialism cannot remain.

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I have always told my subordinates that when they commit any mistakes, the blame must be laid on the superior officers.

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We Chinese are instinctively democratic, and Dr. Sun's objective of universal suffrage evokes from all Chinese a ready and unhesitating response.

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Externally China desires independence, internally she seeks to maintain her existence as a nation; China therefore strives to loose the bonds that bind her people, and to complete the establishment of a new State.

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Modern warfare is by no means merely a matter of military operations. Economic affairs stand together with them in the first rank of the factors of importance.

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My good health is due to a soup made of white doves. It is simply wonderful as a tonic.

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I have often said China is not lacking in material resources. The question is whether we can make full and good use of them.

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The idea of universal brotherhood is innate in the catholic nature of Chinese thought; it was the dominant concept of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, whom events have proved time and again to be not a visionary but one of the world's greatest realists.

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Only a fighting nation can make itself responsible for world peace, and such a nation must organize its material resources and manpower with the highest possible degree of efficiency.

Chiang Kai-shek

You must all be aware that modern war is not a mere matter of military operations. It involves the whole strength and all the resources of the nation. Not only soldiers, but also all citizens without exception, take part.

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The modern world is one wherein every nation has to develop the strength of which its citizens are capable. The independent status of the individual, his thoughts and actions become a thing of the past.

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For many centuries Chinese society has been free of class distinctions such as are found even in advanced democracies.

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Landowners and influential men of all kinds, especially members of political councils, ought to set an example to the people. The young members of rich families should offer themselves for military service. If not one of two sons, at least one of thr...

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Patriotism demands of us sustained sacrifice.

Chiang Kai-shek

Author Bio

  • NameChiang Kai-shek
  • DescriptionPresident of the Republic of China
  • AliasesJiang Jieshi; Jiang Zhongzheng
  • BornOctober 31, 1887
  • DiedApril 5, 1975
  • CountryTaiwan
  • ProfessionPolitician
  • AwardsGrand Cross Of The Legion Of Honour; Knight Grand Cross Of The Order Of The Bath; Order Of The White Lion