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Võ Nguyên Giáp Quotes

1911–2013 Vietnam

Võ Nguyên Giáp (Vietnamese: [vɔ̌ˀ ŋʷīən zǎːp]; 25 August 1911 – 4 October 2013) was a Vietnamese general in the Vietnam People's Army, a politician and journalist. Võ Nguyên Giáp is considered one of the greatest military strategists of the 20th century.

Vietnam
Military leaders

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Never before had there been so many foreign troops on the soil of Viet Nam. But never before either, had the Vietnamese people been so determined to rise up in combat to defend their country.

People’s War, People’s Army (1962)

Listen, the Palestinians are always coming here and saying to me, 'You expelled the French and the Americans. How do we expel the Jews?' I tell them that the French went back to France and the Americans to America. But the Jews have nowhere to go. You will not expel them.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Võ Nguyên Giáp (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.