Idiot!

It depends on how you define military force, but it is plain that the [Self-Defense Forces] does not constitute war potential as such.

The Korean War is a gift from the gods.

I want to see Mount Fuji.

I regard all the world as my country, and I believe that I should be very welcome everywhere.

-- Peter Paul Rubens

Gentlemen, life is short. Never waste your mind on trivial matters. Study much, work much, think much, laugh much.

-- Ōkuma Shigenobu

Nothing is more impossible than what Napoleon faced.

-- Ōkuma Shigenobu

A nation's hundred-year plan rests on education.

-- Itō Hirobumi

I see, and say nothing.

-- Elizabeth I of England

When Paris catches cold, all Europe sneezes.

-- Klemens von Metternich