As for us, during twenty years' reign, we have known much bitterness.
Bao Dai

Henceforth, we shall be happy to be a free citizen in an independent country.
Bao Dai

I do not wish a foreign army to spill the blood of my people.
Bao Dai

I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one.
Bao Dai

If your government had given me a thousandth of the sum it spent to depose me, I could have won that war.
Bao Dai

In this decisive hour of our national history, union means life and division means death.
Bao Dai

The time has come to put an end to the fratricidal war and to recover at last peace and accord.
Bao Dai