“The rise or fall of Shanghai means the birth or death of the whole nation.” — Chiang Kai-shek

I have always told my subordinates that when they commit any mistakes, the blame must be laid on the superior officers.

I should like very much to go to America. I have heard so much of the great industrial and economic development of that great land, and I wish to see things for myself.

Contempt for China on the part of the enemy is his weak point. Knowledge of this weak point is our strong point.

For a period of 17 years - from the age of 9 until I was 25 years old - my mother never spent a day free from domestic difficulties.