{"author":"Sun Yat-sen","author_id":"Sun+Yat-sen","total_quotes":15,"quotes":[{"text":"Revolutionaries were depressed and close to emotional breakdown; after the failure, they left successively.","author":"Sun Yat-sen","tags":["emotional","left","depressed "],"id":16512,"author_id":"Sun+Yat-sen"},{"text":"If China stood on an equal basis with other nations, she could compete freely with them in the economic field and be able to hold her own without failure. But as soon as foreign nations use political power as a shield for their economic designs, then China is at a loss how to resist or to compete successfully with them.","author":"Sun Yat-sen","tags":["power","loss","political "],"id":68807,"author_id":"Sun+Yat-sen"},{"text":"For forty years, I have devoted myself to the cause of the people's revolution with but one aim in view - the elevation of China to a position of freedom and equality among the nations.","author":"Sun Yat-sen","tags":["freedom","myself","people "],"id":86721,"author_id":"Sun+Yat-sen"},{"text":"I have passed English medical examinations in Hong Kong... In my youth, I experienced overseas studies. The languages of the West, its literature, its political science, its customs, its mathematics, its geography, its physics and chemistry - all these I have had the chance to study.","author":"Sun Yat-sen","tags":["mathematics","youth","medical "],"id":124895,"author_id":"Sun+Yat-sen"},{"text":"Remember that a civilized nation cannot just have one party; if there were only one party, this would merely be a dictatorship. Politics could not advance.","author":"Sun Yat-sen","tags":["party","remember","nation "],"id":249289,"author_id":"Sun+Yat-sen"},{"text":"Which, autocracy or democracy, is really better suited to modern China? If we base our judgment upon the intelligence and the ability of the Chinese people, we come to the conclusion that the sovereignty of the people would be far more suitable for us.","author":"Sun Yat-sen","tags":["democracy","people","better "],"id":252552,"author_id":"Sun+Yat-sen"},{"text":"We should use our old moral values and our love of peace as the foundation of national reconstruction and look forward to the day when we shall become leaders in world reconstruction upon lines of international justice and good will.","author":"Sun Yat-sen","tags":["love","good","justice "],"id":274302,"author_id":"Sun+Yat-sen"},{"text":"The key to success is action, and the essential in action is perseverance.","author":"Sun Yat-sen","tags":["perseverance","action "],"id":286804,"author_id":"Sun+Yat-sen"},{"text":"When the war was in progress, England and France agreed wholeheartedly with the Fourteen Points. As soon as the war was won, England, France, and Italy tried to frustrate Wilson's program because it was in conflict with their imperialist policies. As a consequence, the Peace Treaty was one of the most unequal treaties ever negotiated in history.","author":"Sun Yat-sen","tags":["history","progress","war "],"id":312908,"author_id":"Sun+Yat-sen"},{"text":"China's republican politics is like a child who just started schooling. He must have a good teacher and be surrounded by good friends. By the same token, the Chinese people, new to the republican politics, must be educated properly. The revolutionary government should be the people's tutor to impart advanced awareness and experience.","author":"Sun Yat-sen","tags":["friends","good","experience "],"id":338806,"author_id":"Sun+Yat-sen"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":15,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}