The struggle for Burma

Don’t just depend on the courage and intrepidity of others. Each of you must…become a hero possessed of courage and intrepidity. Then only shall we be able to enjoy true freedom.

Emerald cool we may be

As water in cupped hands

But oh that we might be

As splinters of glass

In cupped hands

The greatest gift for an individual or a nation…is abhaya, fearlessness: not merely bodily courage but absence of fear from the mind."

Democracy is the only ideology which is consistent with freedom.

If…the army should come to be hated by the people, then the aims with which this army has been built up would have been in vain.

Do not be frightened every time there is an attempt to frighten you, but do not be entirely without fear. Do not become elated every time you are praised, but do not be entirely lacking in elation.

There were people who described it as a holy struggle, because the intention was so pure…The motive of the struggle determines almost everything. You see that people are suffering and you are suffering, and you want to change. No desire, no ambition is involved. So you come together easily!