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" 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! "

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" Our socialism does not include extreme materialistic concepts, since Indonesia is primarily a God-fearing, God-loving nation. Our socialism is a mixture. We draw political equality from the American Declaration of Independence. We draw spiritual equality from Islam and Christianity. We draw scientific equality from Marx. "

Sukarno

Spiritual

Political

Equality

" No one shrieked, 'We want Bung Hatta.' I did not need him. Just as also I did not need Sjahrir, who refused to show himself at the time of the reading of the Proclamation. Indeed, I could do it myself, and indeed, I did it alone. "

" 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. "

" The principle of building an economy without foreign monopoly capital has become a principle which, for us, is no longer subject to amendment. "

Sukarno

Principle

Economy

" 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. "

" Indonesia is rich in natural resources. Indonesia is rich in manpower with its 103 million inhabitants - not like Malaysia with its 10 million. "

" Hatta always gave the impression of rain. If I was in a real good mood and full of ideas and then happened to encounter Hatta, I felt I was suddenly surprised by a shower of rain and got wet all over the body. My good mood was gone, and also my ideas. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Sukarno

Effort

Saying

" If we truly understand, remember, and love the people of Indonesia, let us accept this principle of social justice, that is, not only political equality, but we must create equality in the economic field, too, which means the best possible well-being. "

" Crush Malaysia! Indonesia may change its tactics, but our goal will remain the same. "

" 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. "

" The worst cruelty that can be inflicted on a human being is isolation. "

" 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. "

Sukarno

World

Stop

" Yes, definitely we want to see A or B or C and so forth live safely and soundly. But as mortal creatures, they will disappear in the end. No, we are not struggling above all else for mortal individuals, but rather for the idea of the glorious and powerful nation which sustains the eighty million Indonesians. "

" If I am not mistaken, it was a British poet who said that 'no one is properly dressed unless he wears a smile.' "

" Not only should the Indonesian people believe in God, but every Indonesian should believe in his own God. "

" 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 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? "

Sukarno

America

Friend

" I always start from the stand that it is imperialism that needs us, not we who need the imperialists. "

" We are not facing great economic difficulties. The Indonesian people are faring reasonably well - just compare us to India or some other countries. "

Sukarno

Difficulties

Great

" 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. "

" We are a fighting nation, continually struggling to overcome diseases from within... and to face up to foreign intervention from without. "

" 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! "

" Even a child, if he looks at a map of the world, can point out that the Indonesian archipelago forms one unity. On the map, there can be shown a unity of the group of islands between two great oceans - the Pacific Ocean and the Indies Ocean - and between two continents - the continent of Asia and the continent of Australia. "

" We are living in a world of fear. The life of man today is corroded and made bitter by fear: fear of the future, fear of the hydrogen bomb, fear of ideologies. Perhaps this fear is a greater danger than the danger itself because it is fear, which drives men to act thoughtlessly, to act dangerously. "

" 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.' "

" To me, both the Declaration of Independence and the Communist Manifesto contain underlying truths, but the West doesn't permit a middle road. "

" I don't want to be a dictator, because it is contrary to my own conscience. I am a democrat, but I don't desire democratic liberalism. On the contrary, I want a guided democracy... I have a conception of my own, which I will put at the disposal of the party leaders if required. "