Japan has been and will always be the mainstay of peace, order and…

We look into the gloom of the future and can see no certain gleam of light before us.

Japan will oppose any attempt at international control of Manchuria. It does not mean that we defy you, because Manchuria belongs to us by right. Read your history. We recovered Manchuria from Russia. We made it what it is today.

And when we're worn, Hack’d, hewn with constant service, thrown aside To rust in peace, or rot in hospitals.

Once have a priest for enemy, good bye To peace.

I suppose when there's no more room for another crow's-foot, one attains a sort of peace?

Why truly; if we will grant the Colonies all that they shall require, and stipulate for nothing in Return; then they will be at Peace with us. I believe it; and on these simple Principles of simple Peace-making I will engage to terminate …