"Regardless of the changing international situation, we shall unhesitatingly make whatever sacrifices may be required and persevere in our struggle. We shall never waver. We shall never compromise."

"The restoration of human rights and freedom to our 700 million compatriots on the mainland is the common will of the whole Chinese race and is our unalterable national purpose and the holy task which …"

"I go walking, and the hills loom above me, range upon range, one against the other. I cannot tell where one begins and another leaves off."

"We shall never stop fighting so long as a single inch of our national territory remains under the Russians imperialists' iron heels and so long as a single Chinese remains under Communist tyranny."

"The destiny of our nation is not in the hands of the United Nations. It is squarely in our own hands."