Even military ministers have no more tha... by Hideki Tojo | We Heart Quotes

Power Right World War II Prime Minister Military Leader

Even military ministers have no more than a certain amount of control. It is customary that they have the right and the power to participate, from a political and military point of view, in the planning of actual operations.

- Hideki Tojo

Other quotes by Hideki Tojo

Thought

On October 18, 1941, I suddenly received a mandate from His Majesty to form a new cabinet. This was completely unexpected, and when I was summoned to the Imperial Palace I thought I would be questioned on the army's point of view.

- Hideki Tojo

Success Time

Therefore, if one were to consider that there was virtually no possibility of success through the US-Japan negotiations, the military and economic pressures would only force Japan into further crisis if time were allowed to pass in vain.

- Hideki Tojo

Existence Freedom

To advocate a New Order was to seek freedom and respect for peoples without prejudice, and to seek a stable basis for the existence all peoples, equally, and free of threats.

- Hideki Tojo

Survival

It goes without saying that when survival is threatened, struggles erupt between peoples, and unfortunate wars between nations result.

- Hideki Tojo

Failure

The reason was the failure of both Japan and China to understand each other and the inability of America and the European powers to sympathize, without prejudice, with the peoples of East Asia.

- Hideki Tojo

Peace World

Throughout that period, Japan had made honest efforts to keep the destruction of war from spreading and, based on the belief that all nations of the world should find their places, had followed a policy designed to restore an expeditious peace between Japan and China.

- Hideki Tojo

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