Park Chung-hee Quotes

If we are weak, our country will be in jeopardy. It is the living lesson of human history of the rise and fall of nations. In order for a country not to fall, it must cultivate its own strength.

Park Chung-hee

• Country
• History
• Fall

We must do our part to end poverty in Korea so that the next generation doesn't experience what we are going through now.

Park Chung-hee

• Experience
• Poverty
• End

But the challenge must be faced squarely. I believe we can overcome it through our own efforts. We must do so. They key is our national power. Take courage from our national pride and traditions, no matter how thorny the road to independence may be.

Park Chung-hee

• Believe
• May
• Power

Koreans stuck to their traditional way of life without knowing what was going on outside the country. We were like frogs in a well.

Park Chung-hee

• Life
• Country
• Like

How can a country like Korea, which was not fully prepared for the upcoming era, be as rich as Germany now?

Park Chung-hee

• Country
• Rich
• Now

Already into the last week of October! The dying fall holds only loneliness. In the garden the chrysanthemums bloom, beautiful, peaceful, as they did a year ago, but the autumn leaves, falling one by one, only make me sad.

Park Chung-hee

• Beautiful
• Fall
• Sad

I have repeatedly emphasized that the Communists in North Korea appear to have set 1975 as the year of aggression against the South.

Park Chung-hee

• Year
• Against
• Aggression

If the North Korean Communists provoke another war, we must immediately deter it and give them a decisive counterattack at the initial place of aggression.

Park Chung-hee

• War
• Place
• Give

We have been born into this land, charged with the historic mission of regenerating the nation.

Park Chung-hee