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We must determine whether we really want freedom -- whether we are willing to dare the perils of... rebirth... For we never take a step forward without surrendering something that we may have held dear, without dying to that which has been. (Emperor Hirohito )
The greatest Glory of a free-born People, Is to transmit that Freedom to their Children. (Emperor Hirohito )
The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy. (Emperor Hirohito )
The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom. (Emperor Hirohito )
I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul. (Emperor Hirohito )
Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship. (Emperor Hirohito )
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty. (Emperor Hirohito )
Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions... (Emperor Hirohito )
Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege. (Emperor Hirohito )
The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do. (Emperor Hirohito )
There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail. (Emperor Hirohito )
Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity. (Emperor Hirohito )
We are free to yield to truth. (Emperor Hirohito )
Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe. (Emperor Hirohito )
Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself. (Emperor Hirohito )
Freedom begins as we become conscious of it. (Emperor Hirohito )
American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense. (Emperor Hirohito )
Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it. (Emperor Hirohito )
When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free. (Emperor Hirohito )
Liberation is not deliverance. (Emperor Hirohito )
Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence. (Emperor Hirohito )
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