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How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude. (Emperor Hirohito )
Yet we can maintain a free society only if we recognize that in a free society no one can win all the time. No one can have his own way all the time, and no one is right all the time. (Emperor Hirohito )
If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches, they will take sandwiches. (Emperor Hirohito )
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. (Emperor Hirohito )
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I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt. (Emperor Hirohito )
We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in. (Emperor Hirohito )
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. (Emperor Hirohito )
Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it. (Emperor Hirohito )
Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases? (Emperor Hirohito )
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him. (Emperor Hirohito )
Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment. (Emperor Hirohito )
The saving man becomes the free man. (Emperor Hirohito )
I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy -- but that could change. (Emperor Hirohito )
Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged. (Emperor Hirohito )
It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom. (Emperor Hirohito )
We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees. (Emperor Hirohito )
True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made. (Emperor Hirohito )
We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear. (Emperor Hirohito )
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds. (Emperor Hirohito )
The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament. (Emperor Hirohito )
Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains. (Emperor Hirohito )
Free people, remember this maxim: We may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost. (Emperor Hirohito )
A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue. (Emperor Hirohito )
Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect. (Emperor Hirohito )
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure. (Emperor Hirohito )
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