He who is ashamed of slave origins is no true warrior.

Intelligence is worth a thousand soldiers.

What is won by the sword must be defended by the sword.

Fortune lies in heaven. Armor lies in the heart. Achievement lies in the legs.

-- The 'Dragon of Echigo' — a Sengoku-era warlord whose devotion to righteous warfare and Buddhist faith made him Japan's most paradoxical military figure

In war, a victory of sixty percent is the best. Total victory breeds complacency.

-- The 'Tiger of Kai' who transformed his landlocked mountain domain into one of Sengoku Japan's most formidable military powers

This man might be the one to seize the realm.

-- Toyotomi Hideyoshi's chief strategist and the architect of his greatest victories

To achieve the objective, do not be choosy about methods.

-- The ruthlessly effective architect of modern Japan who built the Meiji state's institutions while his more charismatic peers took the glory

I do not mind hardship — only let it be hardship that matters.

-- The radical samurai who created Japan's first modern militia and ignited the revolution that ended feudal rule

Making this uninteresting world interesting.

-- The radical samurai who created Japan's first modern militia and ignited the revolution that ended feudal rule