Chinese Military Leader Quotes

Chiang Kai-shek

Koxinga

Zuo Zongtang

Han Xin

Wu Peifu

Ma Hongkui

Ma Shaowu

Without establishing national laws, how can you suppress the rebellion?

Only a fighting nation can make itself responsible for world peace, and such a nation must organize its material resources and manpower with the highest possible degree of efficiency.

Chiang Kai-shek

"The Military Campaigns of the Kingdom of Wu." "They didn't have any machine guns or airplanes then."

Are these not sufficient proofs of your incompetency and inability to resist my forces? I will give you more and stronger ones. But if you still persist in refusing to liften to reason and decline to do my bidding, and if you wish delibrately to rush to your ruin, then I will shortly, in your presence, order your castle [Fort Provintia] to be stormed. If I wish to set my force to work, then I am able to move heaven and Earth. Wherever I go I am destined to win. Therefore take warning, and think the matter over.

I have served the Government of China for many years, first the Emperor, and after that the Republican Government at Nanking. I have always tried to do my best; but I must have committed errors—- though I do not know what they were—-or this misfortune would not have befallen me. I have lost face.

I have read your religious works and I have found nothing inappropriate.

We shall first confront them [the Russians] with arguments... and then settle it on the battlefields.

For one who has really mastered the way of warfare, his enemy can do nothing to escape death.

It's morning now. We're going to attack the Zhao camp and have a grand feast there this afternoon.