For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.

We want deeper sincerity of motive, eater courage in speech and earnestness in action.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

You should always assert your rights lest somebody should wrong you unnecessarily.

If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

There is no way you can pay back for kindness because it comes for free.

China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backwards.

One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities.

No force on earth can dislodge democracy and rule forever.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.