It's true that I refused foreign aid. It's true. It wasn't my personal decision, however - it was the whole country that said no.

Sometimes we hurt one another without realizing it.

Just when you think you've achieved something, you realize you've achieved nothing. And still you have to go forward just the same - toward a dream so distant that your road has neither beginning nor end.

This is also something I've learned from experience. Didn't they perhaps give us the vote because we went too far?

I don't mind if my life goes in the service of the nation. If I die, every drop of my blood will invigorate the nation.

Naturally, if the Americans had fired a shot, if the Seventh Fleet had done something more than sit there in the Bay of Bengal...yes, the Third World War would have exploded. But, in all honesty, not even that fear occurred to me.

Nothing that is worthwhile is ever easy.