Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 1933 |
| AUTHOR: | Mao Zedong (1893–1976) |
| QUOTATION: | The enemy advances, we retreat; the enemy camps, we harass; the enemy tires, we attack; the enemy retreats, we pursue. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Mao was quoting from a letter from the Front Committee to the Central Committee, on guerrilla tactics. |
| SUBJECTS: | War |