The Mao quotation reads "The seizure of power by armed force, the settlement of the issue by war, is the central task and the highest form of revolution." (革命的中心任务和最高形式是武装夺取政权，是战争解决问题). It is from Section Five of the Quotations from Mao Zedong; the original locus is "Problems of War and Strategy" (6 November 1938), Selected Works, Vol. II, 219.