호치민의 유명한 말들

호치민의 유명한 말들

The official picture of Chủ Tịch Hồ Chí Minh.

• "Nothing is more valuable than independence and freedom."
  
• "I follow only one party: the Vietnamese party."
  
• "You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win." - referring to France and America in their wars in Vietnam.
  
• "It is better to sacrifice everything than to live in slavery!"
  
• "The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man."
  
• "We have to win independence at any cost, even if the Truong Son mountains burn."
  
• "In (Lenin's Theses on the National and Colonial Questions) there were political terms that were difficult to understand. But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy. Sitting by myself in my room, I would shout as if I were addressing large crowds: "Dear martyr compatriots! This is what we need, this is our path to liberation!" Since then (the 1920s) I had entire confidence in Lenin, in the Third International!"
  
• "When the prison doors are opened, the real dragon will fly out."
• "It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me."
• "Remember, the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability."
• "My only desire is that all of our Party and people, closely united in struggle, construct a peaceful, unified, independent, democratic and prosperous, and make a valiant contribution to the world Revolution." (Hanoi, May 10, 1969.)
  

베트남에서 '민족의 스승'으로 칭송받는 호치민은
평새을 독신으로 살다가 평소 읽던 책과 두 벌의 옷, 기워 신은 양말,
버려진 타이어를 잘라 만든 신발, 낡은 모자만을 남기고 세상을 떠나
근검절약의 모범을 보인 지도자였다.

생전에 그는 다산 정약용의 [목민심서]를 탐독하고
'꿍아(함께 산다)' '꿍안(함께 먹는다)' '꿍담(함께 일한다)'
이라는 '3꿍' 정신을 항상 마음에 새겨 국민과 동고동락하려고 힘썼다.