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We must make use of every minute, value every unit of our material power and pool the wisdom and talent of all so that we can accentuate both our visible national defense combat capability and our invisible political, social and cultural vitality, and combine these into a powerful, compact and undivided force.

— Chiang Ching-kuo

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We must enlarge political participation, safeguard freedom and human rights, and assure that democracy and freedom are based on the will of all the people.

The fierce conflict confronting us will decide our fate - whether it is to be "glory or humiliation, freedom or slavery.

To talk peace with the Chinese Communists is to invite death. This is an agonizing, bloodstained lesson that we and many other Asian countries have learned.

'To the Communists, peace talks are another form of warfare. Although the two look different, the aim is identical.

Our progress toward democracy should be evolutionary and not imprudent; democracy must be adapted to our own national environment so it can strike root in our own soil.

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