Revolutionaries were depressed and close to emotional breakdown; after the failure, they left successively.
Sun Yat-sen was a Chinese physician, revolutionary and political thinker who founded the Republic of China and the Kuomintang. Born to a poor peasant family in Guangdong, he was educated in Hawaii and qualified as a doctor in Hong Kong before turning to politics.
After years leading movements against the Qing dynasty from exile, he led the 1911 Revolution that brought it down, and became the first provisional president of the new republic in 1912. He spent his remaining years struggling against China's warlords and died in Beijing in 1925. His Three Principles of the People called for nationalism, democracy and the people's livelihood. Both the Republic of China and the People's Republic of China honour him.
After years leading movements against the Qing dynasty from exile, he led the 1911 Revolution that brought it down, and became the first provisional president of the new republic in 1912. He spent his remaining years struggling against China's warlords and died in Beijing in 1925. His Three Principles of the People called for nationalism, democracy and the people's livelihood. Both the Republic of China and the People's Republic of China honour him.
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.
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.
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.
The key to success is action, and the essential in action is perseverance.
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.
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.
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.
Japan today has become acquainted with the Western civilization of the rule of Might, but retains the characteristics of the Oriental civilization of the rule of Right. Now the question remains whether Japan will be the hawk of the Western civilization of the rule of Might, or the tower of strength of the Orient.
The government should help and guide the weak and small racial groups within its national boundaries toward self-determination and self-government. It should offer resistance to foreign aggression, and simultaneously, it should revise foreign treaties in order to restore our equality and independence among the nations.