Koki Hirota quotes

“As you can see, I'm in good health. I have no message; just tell them, please, that I went to my death quietly and in good health.”
-- Koki Hirota

Source : "War Criminal: The Life and Death of Hirota Koki". Book by Saburō Shiroyama, p. 296, 1977.

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“I am having a very difficult time. Things happen unexpectedly.”
-- Koki Hirota

Source : "The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire". Book by John Toland, p.49, 2003.

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“Other powers will continue to enjoy an equal right to trade in and develop the natural resources of the occupied territory, for the economic development of which the investment of foreign capital is very desirable.”
-- Koki Hirota

Source : "British Relations with China". Book by Irving Sigmund Friedman, p.138, 1940.

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“I investigated reported Japanese atrocities committed by the Japanese Army in Nanking and elsewhere. Verbal accounts of reliable eyewitnesses and letters from individuals whose credibility is beyond question afford convincing proof that the Japanese Army behaved and is continuing to behave in a fashion reminiscent of Attila and his Huns. Not less than 300,000 Chinese civilians were slaughtered, many in cold blood.”
-- Koki Hirota

Source : "Nanking 1937: Memory and Healing". Book by Robert Sabella, p. 56, 2002.

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“Man is a messenger who forgot the message.”

“Oh, that [his Thanksgiving Message] is some of Seward's nonsense, and it pleases the fools.”

“I've always had good energy; I've always had good health.”

“Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.”

“Having insurance doesn't guarantee good health outcomes, but it is a critical factor.”

Source : "A Healthy Future for Immigrant Children Is a Healthy Future for the Nation" by Irwin Redlener, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 30, 2013.

“It's easier and more cost effective to maintain good health, than to regain it once it's lost.”

“O Athenians, what toil do I undergo to please you!”

“critic, n. A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him.”

“The manner of their living is very barbarous, because they do not eat at fixed times, but as often as they please”

Source : Amerigo Vespucci (1916). “Letter to Piero Soderini, Gonfaloniere: The Year 1504”

“You cannot live your life to please others. The choice must be yours.”