Hideki Tojo Quotes: Best Quotes And Sayings
Hideki Tōjō (December 30, 1884 – December 23, 1948) was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army, a nationalist thinker, and the 40th Prime Minister of Japan.
Hideki Tojo Quotes :
Hideki Tojo Quotes
1. This is farewell. I shall wait beneath the moss Until the flowers are fragrant In this island country of Japan.
- Hideki Tojo
2. Up until the very end, these were important reasons for the outbreak of war, and from Japan's point of view, this is a matter of great regret.
- Hideki Tojo
3. Thus, it was to seek true civilization and true justice for all the peoples of the world, and to view this as the destruction of personal freedom and respect is to be assailed by the hatred and emotion of war, and to make hasty judgments.
- Hideki Tojo
4. However, even during the preparations for action, we laid our plans in such a manner that should there be progress through diplomatic negotiation, we would be well prepared to cancel operations at the latest moment that communication technology would have permitted.
- Hideki Tojo
5. Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
- Hideki Tojo
6. From the point of the view of the nation's power, it was obvious that while we were fighting the Sino-Japanese war, every effort was to be made to avoid adding to our enemies and opening additional fronts.
- Hideki Tojo
7. With options thus foreclosed, in order to protect and defend the nation and clear the obstacles that stood in its path, a decisive appeal to arms was made.
- Hideki Tojo
8. To advocate a New Order was to seek freedom and respect for peoples without prejudice, and to seek a stable basis for the existence all peoples, equally, and free of threats.
- Hideki Tojo
9. My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
- Hideki Tojo
10. It goes without saying that when survival is threatened, struggles erupt between peoples, and unfortunate wars between nations result.
- Hideki Tojo
11. I would point out that the cultural advance of these people has been suppressed in the past and continues to be suppressed in the present by policies designed to keep them in ignorance.
- Hideki Tojo
12. On October 18, 1941, I suddenly received a mandate from His Majesty to form a new cabinet. This was completely unexpected, and when I was summoned to the Imperial Palace I thought I would be questioned on the army's point of view.
- Hideki Tojo
13. Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
- Hideki Tojo
14. Justice has nothing to do with victor nations and vanquished nations, but must be a moral standard that all the world's peoples can agree to. To seek this and to achieve it - that is true civilization.
- Hideki Tojo
15. I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.
- Hideki Tojo
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