Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Norodom Sihanouk

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Cambodian royalty Norodom Sihanouk.

Last updated on April 15, 2025.

Norodom Sihanouk was a Cambodian statesman, Sangkum and FUNCINPEC politician, film director, and composer who led Cambodia in various capacities throughout his long career, most often as both King and Prime Minister of Cambodia. In Cambodia, he is known as Samdech Euv. During his lifetime, Cambodia was under various regimes, from French colonial rule, an independent kingdom (1953–1970), a republic (1970–75), the Khmer Rouge regime (1975–79), another communist regime (1979–93), to finally another kingdom.

Cambodian - Royalty | October 31, 1922 - October 15, 2012

Source: Wikipedia

John Foster Dulles had called on me in his capacity as Secretary of State, and he had exhausted every argument to persuade me to place Cambodia under the protection of the South East Asia Treaty Organization.