Zhang Zhidong

Quotes

• “If the Chinese will not learn the true principles of government, all else will be useless. Knowledge is power, and altho...”
• “In order to defend the Chinese race, one must first defend the Confucian culture; and in order to defend the Confucian c...”
• “Sincerity is the norm of Heaven and the law of our nature. China and the West agree on this point, for without sincerity...”
• “There never yet has been a country which became powerful without knowledge. A man by his own strength alone cannot succe...”