Sun Yat-sen Quotes

To understand is hard. Once one understands, action is easy.

An individual should not have too much freedom. A nation should have absolute freedom.

If the idea of revolution is to win out, it must be through political enlightenment. It is useless to try to impose it by force of arms.

Trust is earned by many deeds, and lost by only one.

Of the people, by the people, for the people.

The Revolution has not yet succeeded. Comrades, you must carry on!

In the construction of a country, it is not the practical workers but the idealists and planners that are difficult to find.

The whole world is one family.

To understand is difficult; to act is easy.

Only powerful people have liberty.

Class war is not the cause of social progress; it is a disease developed in the course of social progress. The cause of the disease is the inability to subsist, and the result of the disease is war.

For forty years, I have devoted myself to the cause of the people's revolution with but one aim in view - the elevation of China to a position of freedom and equality among the nations.

The key to success is action, and the essential in action is perseverance.