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China could only resist foreign aggression and develop its industry by instituting democracy and unifying the country.

— Peng Dehuai

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When soldiers become conscious of what they are doing and are organized, they constitute a mighty force.

I was prepared to destroy myself, but I would never do anything to harm the people’s army led by the Party.

History is always moving ahead in a wavelike fashion, and the people of today outpace those of yesterday in their continuous forward advance.

Don’t believe the good words of a man uttered in ordinary times; his action in an emergency will tell what sort of a man he is.

Now whoever opposes the Communists and fires the first shot, will be hit by our second shot immediately, then our third shot. This is 'to pay a man back in his own coin'.

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The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament!

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The law itself is the instrument of the ruling class; hence it is a logical impossibility for another class to assume power legally.

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The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of bourgeois stupidity.

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