Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Bao Dai

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Vietnamese statesman Bao Dai.
Last updated on September 30, 2024.
Bao Dai

Bảo Đại, born Nguyễn Phúc Vĩnh Thụy, was the 13th and final Emperor of the Nguyễn dynasty, the last ruling dynasty of Vietnam. From 1926 to 1945, he was emperor of Annam and de jure monarch of Tonkin, which were then protectorates in French Indochina, covering the present-day central and northern Vietnam. Bảo Đại ascended the throne in 1932.

If your government had given me a thousandth of the sum it spent to depose me, I could have won that war.
I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one.
As for us, during twenty years' reign, we have known much bitterness. — © Bao Dai
As for us, during twenty years' reign, we have known much bitterness.
I do not wish a foreign army to spill the blood of my people.
The time has come to put an end to the fratricidal war and to recover at last peace and accord.
Henceforth, we shall be happy to be a free citizen in an independent country.
In this decisive hour of our national history, union means life and division means death.
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