“What really matters in the game among nations is national strength and military capability to maintain national security, to preserve the integrity of the national territory, to protect and promote national interest, and to uphold national sovereignty and honor of the nation. Nothing less and nothing more.”

“We do not deny any nation's legitimate interest in security. But protecting the security of one nation by robbing another of its national independence and national traditions is not legitimate. In the long run, it is not even secure.”

“The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.”

“You know how impossible it is, in short, to have a free nation if it is a military nation and under military orders”

“The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.”

“The revolution in global communications thus forces all nations to reconsider traditional ways of thinking about national sovereignty.”

“A nation lives forever through its concepts, honour, and culture. It is for these reasons that the rulers of nations must judge and act not only on the basis of physical and material interests of the nation but on the basis of the nation's historical honour, of the nation's eternal interests. Thus: not bread at all costs, but honour at all costs.”