Chiang Kai-shek

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Chiang Kai-shek (October 31, 1887 – April 5, 1975) was a political and military leader of 20th century China

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• Mao is a sometime Yin sometime Yang strange man, he has a soft-as-cotton outer layer, but at the same time has sharp needles hiding inside... I do not think he could achieve anything, at the end he will be crushed inside my palm.
  • Diary entry (陰陽怪氣,綿裡藏針....吾料其不能成事,终難逃余之一握也)

• If and when the war starts(anti-Japanese war), where ever you are, North or South, young or old, who ever you are, you all have the responsibility of protecting our home and repelling the enemy, you all must have the will to achieve ultimate sacrifice.

• • 如果战端一开，就是地无分南北，年无分老幼，无论何人，皆有守土抗战之责任,皆应抱定牺牲一切之决心！

—— 蒋介石庐山《应战宣言》

• • 和平未到根本絕望時期，決不放棄和平，犧牲未到最後關頭，決不輕言犧牲

___對於蘆溝橋事件之嚴正表示 中華民國二十六年七月十七日 出席廬山第二次談話會講___

一寸山河一寸血，十萬青年十萬軍

We must use every inch of our blood to take back every inch of our land, you ten thousand youths and soldiers.

• "It is not worth is to sacrifice the interest of the country for the sake of my son."
  • Jay Taylor (2000). The Generalissimo's son: Chiang Ching-kuo and the revolutions in China and Taiwan. Harvard University Press. p. 59. ISBN 0674002873. Retrieved on 2010-06-28. 
  • Jonathan Fenby (2005). Chiang Kai Shek: China's Generalissimo and the Nation He Lost. Carroll & Graf Publishers. p. 205. ISBN 0786714840. Retrieved on 2010-06-28. 
• "I would rather have no offspring than sacrifice our nation's interests." Chiang had absolutely no intention of stopping the war against the Communists.
  • Jay Taylor (2000). The Generalissimo's son: Chiang Ching-kuo and the revolutions in China and Taiwan. Harvard University Press. p. 74. ISBN 0674002873. Retrieved on 2010-06-28.