SUKARNO

Let us not be bitter about the past, but let us keep our eyes firmly on the future.

I love life.

Never, ever forget history.

I was weaned not on television or Wild West sagas but on stories of nationalism and patriotism. I would sit at my mother's feet by the hour and drink in these exciting tales of the freedom fighters in our family.

I am very unhappy about reports that I was seeking asylum in Manila.

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

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

I hate imperialism. I detest colonialism. And I fear the consequences of their last bitter struggle for life. We are determined that our nation, and the world as a whole, shall not be the plaything of one small corner of the world.

Reach your ambition as high as the skies! Dream as high as the skies! Because if you fell, you will fall among the stars!!

Do not play with fire in Indonesia … let not the lack of understanding by America lead to a third world war.

Yes, I am a Muslim. But first I am an Indonesian Nationalist.

Independence can only be obtained and secured by a nation that has its spirit raging with determination: Independence or Death!

This country, the Republic of Indonesia, does not belong to any group, nor to any religion, nor to any ethnic group, nor to any group with customs and traditions, but the property of all of us from Sabang to Merauke!

Don't ever forget the history! It will make and change who we are!

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.

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!

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.'

It has been the case for some time that I have made myself dizzy thinking about the fact that the implementation of the Three-fold Program of the government, above all in the area of food and clothing, has been experiencing difficulties.

The defense of the revolution is the defense of the people.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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.