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Never, ever forget history.
The defense of the revolution is the defense of the people.
Don't ever forget the history. It will make and change who we are.
I am very unhappy about reports that I was seeking asylum in Manila.
The worst cruelty that can be inflicted on a human being is isolation.
Nationalism cannot flower if it does not grow in the garden of internationalism.
At least Russia and China didn't call us names when we smiled sweetly at America.
Let us not be bitter about the past, but let us keep our eyes firmly on the future.
Crush Malaysia! Indonesia may change its tactics, but our goal will remain the same.
Learning without thinking is useless, but thinking without learning is very dangerous!
Where Slavery is, there Liberty cannot be; and where Liberty is, there Slavery cannot be.
A thousand of old man are just able to dream, but a young man is able to change the world!
Rose never propagandize its fragrant, but its own fragrance spreads through its surrounding.
Am I not peaceful? We want to be free - completely free. Free to be free. We want to be left alone.
I always start from the stand that it is imperialism that needs us, not we who need the imperialists.
If I am not mistaken, it was a British poet who said that 'no one is properly dressed unless he wears a smile.'
Conquer the thousands of man may not be called a winner, but be able to conquer yourself is called a brilliant conqueror!
If some nation says to us, 'You can have aid, but you have to end confrontation,' then I say, 'Go to hell with your aid.'
I embrace the PKI because it is a revolutionary force. PKI go forward. PKI never retreat. PKI grow. PKI be strong. Onward.
If Marcos wants to aid Malaysia, that's his business, but we will continue to crush Malaysia, even if we have to fight alone.
Independence can only be obtained and secured by a nation that has its spirit raging with determination: independence or death!
If I used to say that Indonesia would be free when the corn ripens, I can now say that Indonesia will be free before it blossoms.
I am not an economist... I am not a business technician. I am a revolutionary, and I do what is right for an economic revolutionary.
Upbuilding is necessary for the uplifting of our soul... Indonesia must be a strong country packed with factories. This is our utopia.
Reach your ambition as high as the skies! Dream it as high as the skies! Because if you're fell, you're gonna fall among of the stars!!
We must have a blueprint not only for a guided economy but for a social order based on justice and ensuring the well-being of the people.
We are a fighting nation, continually struggling to overcome diseases from within... and to face up to foreign intervention from without.
I would adore to make up with the United States of America... Oh, America, what is the matter with you? Why couldn't you have been my friend?
To me, both the Declaration of Independence and the Communist Manifesto contain underlying truths, but the West doesn't permit a middle road.
The principle of building an economy without foreign monopoly capital has become a principle which, for us, is no longer subject to amendment.
Indonesia is rich in natural resources. Indonesia is rich in manpower with its 103 million inhabitants - not like Malaysia with its 10 million.
We are not facing great economic difficulties. The Indonesian people are faring reasonably well - just compare us to India or some other countries.
There is not one state truly alive if it is not as if a cauldron burns and boils in its representative body, and if there is no clash of convictions in it.
America likes you only if you're on the side she selects. If you don't go along with her totally, you're automatically considered to have entered the Soviet bloc.
Insofar as Pancasila is concerned, I am only its formulator: a formulator of those feelings which have been present silently in the heart of the Indonesian people.
Which other people in this world stop up holes in their sidewalks with cassava, brothers and sisters? Only Indonesia itself, on account of the abundance of its food.
We must all build national unity, build all revolutionary forces, into one powerful wave to sweep away our main enemy, political imperialism and economic imperialism.
I liked Kennedy. So far, he is the only American president who could talk with me and with whom I could talk. I know Johnson, but I have not yet a clear opinion of him.
Like David Copperfield, I was born amidst poverty and grew up in poverty. I did not own shoes. I did not bathe in water from a tap. I did no know about forks and spoons.
I myself am sometimes fed up with Hatta's policies. Hatta and I sometimes bug each other, but omitting Hatta from the Proclamation Text... that is the action of a coward!
We feel free... Now we are really self-reliant. This is the great advantage of teaching ourselves to become a free people, no longer one that always asks, 'Aid, aid, please.'
What, exactly, did Sjahrir do for the Republic? ... His entire underground effort can be summed up by saying that he sat quietly and safely away somewhere listening to a clandestine radio.
They, OLDEFO (Old Established Forces), carry out l'exploitation de l'homme par 'homme (the exploitation of man by man). Do not let them live, so that there's no colonialism anymore in the world.
Even if you were a general in 1945, if you split the revolutionary national unity today, if you are an enemy of the main pillars of the revolution today, then you have become a force of reaction!
Do good to another man, even when they do not do you good; another will certainly do you good. if there is still shame and fear in one's heart to do good, there will certainly be no progress at all.
How terrifically dynamic is our time! We can mobilize all the spiritual, all the moral, all the political strength of Africa and Asia on the side of peace. Yes, we! We, the people of Asia and Africa!
If, for example, one day Ki Bagoes Hadikoesoemo becomes the Indonesian Head of State, and dies, won't his child be [his replacement]? Then because of that I do not adhere to the principle of monarchism.
To intoxicate the masses until they were heady with the wine of inspiration was all I lived for. To me, this was elixir... I wax lyrical. I literally am overcome, and this is transmitted to my listeners.
What America did in Vietnam and the Congo - we feel. And as a result come these demonstrations. I am not defending the act of burning USIS books. We deplore it. But we can understand the motives of the students.
I was weaned not on television or Wild West sagas but on stories of nationalism and patriotism. I would sit at my mother's feet by the hour and drink in these exciting tales of the freedom fighters in our family.