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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either. (Emperor Hirohito )
The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom. (Emperor Hirohito )
It is my right to be uncommon. For I do not choose to be a common man, If I can, I seek opportunity. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the government look after me. I choose to take the calculated risk, to dream, to build, to fail or succeed. I choose not to barter incentive for a dole, I prefer the challenges of life to a guaranteed existence, the thrill of fulfillment to the state calm of Utopia. I will not trade my freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout. (Emperor Hirohito )
Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed. (Emperor Hirohito )
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A slave is a free man if he is content with his lot; a free man is a slave if he seeks more than that. (Emperor Hirohito )
Freedom also includes the right to mismanage your own affairs. (Emperor Hirohito )
It is quite impossible to guarantee world peace. But is should be possible to guarantee world freedom. (Emperor Hirohito )
Liberty is the right to choose, freedom is the result of that choice. (Emperor Hirohito )
It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere. (Emperor Hirohito )
Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting. (Emperor Hirohito )
The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force. (Emperor Hirohito )
For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged. (Emperor Hirohito )
Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth. (Emperor Hirohito )
The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves. (Emperor Hirohito )
Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior. (Emperor Hirohito )
The more internal freedom you achieve, the more you want: it is more fun to be happy than sad, more enjoyable to choose your own emotions than to have them inflicted on you by mechanical glandular processes, more pleasurable to solve your problems than to be stuck with them forever. (Emperor Hirohito )
How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold. (Emperor Hirohito )
It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts. (Emperor Hirohito )
He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage. (Emperor Hirohito )
When I'm hungry, I eat. When I'm thirsty, I drink. When I feel like saying something, I say it. (Emperor Hirohito )
Freedom comes when you learn to let go. Creation comes when you learn to say no (Emperor Hirohito )
Now that it's out, I feel free - like a bird that's been let out of a cage. For the first time in my life, I feel free to live my life, my dreams. (Emperor Hirohito )
You who inherit the heavy privilege to serve in freedom's name. You who must brace for battle surely to come. (Emperor Hirohito )
Go forth and proclaim liberty throughout all the land, unto all the inhabitants thereof. (Emperor Hirohito )
I never said money is freedom! I said money buys freedom. BUYS! What does that mean, money is freedom? This is ridiculous: Money is freedom. It means nothing. (Emperor Hirohito )
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