If Marcos wants to aid Malaysia, that’s his business, but we will continue to crush Malaysia, even if we have to fight alone. Sukarno Read Quote
I myself am sometimes fed up with Hatta’s policies. Hatta and I sometimes bug each other, but omitting Hatta from the Proclamation Text… that is the action of a coward! Sukarno Read Quote
The principle of building an economy without foreign monopoly capital has become a principle which, for us, is no longer subject to amendment. Sukarno Read Quote
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. Sukarno Read Quote
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. Sukarno Read Quote
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.’ Sukarno Read Quote
Peking welcomed me with tremendous parades and gun salutes. The people with me are proud of me, proud that our downtrodden country has taken its place among the great nations. And now, people of America, I ask you, why didn’t Eisenhower accord me the same respect? Sukarno Read Quote
America likes you only if you’re on the side she selects. If you don’t go along with her totally, you’re automatically considered to have entered the Soviet bloc. Sukarno Read Quote
If I am not mistaken, it was a British poet who said that ‘no one is properly dressed unless he wears a smile.’ Sukarno Read Quote
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. Sukarno Read Quote
