Mao Zedong
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"Honorary Chairman"December 25, 1954 – September 9, 1976

/predecessor3 = Position created

/successor3 = Zhou Enlai

/order4 = 1st President of the People's Republic of China/Chairman of the People's Republic of China

/premier4 = Zhou Enlai

/deputy4 = Zhu De

/term_start4 = September 27, 1954

/term_end4 = April 27, 1959

/predecessor4 = Position created

/successor4 = Liu Shaoqi

/office5 = Member of theNational People's Congress

/term5 = September 15, 1954 – April 18, 1959

December 21, 1964 – September 9, 1976

/constituency7 = Beijing At-large

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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

What we have in excess is women. So if you want, we can give a few of those to you, some tens of thousands. Let them go to your place. They will create disasters. That way you can lessen our burden.

Let a hundred flowers bloom.

A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.

To read too many books is harmful.

You say, away with you Communists; we say, away with you imperialists.

We are advocates of the abolition of war, we do not want war; but war can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.

I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses. On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever.