Revolutionary Heroism

This army has an indomitable spirit and is determined to vanquish all enemies and never to yield. No matter what the difficulties and hardships, so long as a single man remains, he will fight on.

Source: "On Coalition Government" (April 24, 1945), Selected Works, Vol. III, p. 264.*

這個軍隊具有一往無前的精神，它要壓倒一切敵人，而決不被敵人所屈服。不論在任何艱難困苦的場合，只要還有一個人，這個人就要繼續戰鬥下去。

On Coalition Government — April 1945 political report to the 7th Congress; many quotations on party and masses come from it.

Give full play to our style of fighting - courage in battle, no fear of sacrifice, no fear of fatigue, and continuous fighting (that is, fighting successive battles in a short time without rest).

Source: "The Present Situation and Our Tasks" (December 25, 1947), Selected Works, Vol. IV, p. 161.

發揚勇敢戰鬥、不怕犧牲、不怕疲勞和連續作戰（即在短期內不休息地接連打幾仗）的作風。

Thousands upon thousands of martyrs have heroically laid down their lives for the people; let us hold their banner high and march ahead along the path crimson with their blood!

Source: "On Coalition Government" (April 24, 1945), Selected Works, Vol. III, p. 318.

成千成萬的先烈，為著人民的利益，在我們的前頭英勇地犧牲了，讓我們高舉起他們的旗幟，踏著他們的血跡前進吧！

On Coalition Government — April 1945 political report to the 7th Congress; many quotations on party and masses come from it.

Be resolute, fear no sacrifice and surmount every difficulty to win victory.

Source: "The Foolish Old Man Who Removed the Mountains" (June 11, 1945), Selected Works, Vol. III, p. 321.*

下定決心，不怕犧牲，排除萬難，去爭取勝利。

The Foolish Old Man Who Removed the Mountains — June 1945 closing address to the 7th Congress, using a fable for sustained effort.

At a critical moment in the progress of the Northern Expedition,… the treacherous and reactionary policies of "party purge" and massacre adopted by the Kuomintang authorities wrecked this national united front - the united front of the Kuomintang, the Communist Party and all sections of the people, which embodied the Chinese people's cause of liberation - and all its revolutionary policies… Thereupon unity was replaced by civil war, democracy by dictatorship, and a China full of brightness by a China covered in darkness. But the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese people were neither cowed nor conquered nor exterminated. They picked themselves up, wiped off the blood, buried their fallen comrades and went into battle again. Holding high the great standard of revolution, they rose in armed resistance and over a vast territory in China they set up people's governments, carried out land reform, built up a people's army - the Chinese Red Army - and preserved and expanded the revolutionary forces of the Chinese people.

Source: "On Coalition Government" (April 24, 1945), Selected Works, Vol. III, p. 261.*

……正當北伐戰爭向前發展的緊要關頭，這個代表中國人民解放事業的國共兩黨和各界人民的民族統一戰線及其一切革命政策，就被國民黨當局的叛賣性的反人民的「清黨」政策和屠殺政策所破壞了。……從此以後，內戰代替了團結，獨裁代替了民主，黑暗的中國代替了光明的中國。但是中國共產黨和中國人民並沒有被嚇倒，被征服，被殺絕。他們從地下爬起來，揩乾淨身上的血跡，掩埋好同伴的屍首，他們又繼續戰鬥了。他們高舉起革命的大旗，舉行了武裝的抵抗，在中國的廣大區域內，組織了人民的政府，實行了土地制度的改革，創造了人民的軍隊——中國紅軍，保存了和發展了中國人民的革命力量。

On Coalition Government — April 1945 political report to the 7th Congress; many quotations on party and masses come from it.

You have many good qualities and have rendered great service, but you must always remember not to become conceited. You are respected by all, and quite rightly, but this easily leads to conceit. If you become conceited, if you are not modest and cease to exert yourselves, and if you do not respect others, do not respect the cadres and the masses, then you will cease to be heroes and models. There have been such people in the past, and I hope you will not follow their example.

Source: "We Must Learn to Do Economic Work" (January 10, 1945), Selected Works, Vol. III, p. 239.

你們有許多的長處，有很大的功勞，但是你們切記不可以驕傲，你們被大家尊敬，是應當的，但是也容易因此引起驕傲。如果你們驕傲起來，不虛心，不再努力，不尊重人家，不尊重幹部，不尊重群衆，你們就會當不成英雄和模範了。過去已有一些這樣的人，希望你們不要學他們。

We Must Learn to Do Economic Work — January 1945, on economic self-sufficiency in base areas.

We the Chinese nation have the spirit to fight the enemy to the last drop of our blood, the determination to recover our lost territory by our own efforts, and the ability to stand on our own feet in the family of nations.

Source: "On Tactics Against Japanese Imperialism" (December 27, 1935), Selected Works, Vol. I, p. 170.*

你們在消滅敵人的鬥爭中，在恢復和發展工農業生產的鬥爭中，克服了很多的艱難困苦，表現了極大的勇敢、智慧和積極性。你們是全中華民族的模範人物，是推動各方面人民事業勝利前進的骨幹，是人民政府的可靠支柱和人民政府聯繫廣大群衆的橋樑。代表中共中央在全國戰鬥英雄和勞動模範代表會議上的祝詞（一九五零年九月二十五日），一九五零年九月二十六日《人民日報》我們中華民族有同自己的敵人血戰到底的氣概。有在自力更生的基礎上光復舊物的決心，有自立於世界民族之林的能力。