児孫のために美田を買わず。
Military Strategists
Saigō Takamori
The charismatic giant who led Japan's Meiji Restoration through force of personality and moral authority (1828-1877). Saigo Takamori toppled the shogunate, built the new army, then rebelled against the very government he created — dying as the 'last samurai' in a final stand for a vanishing world.
View this figure's profile
Saigō Takamori's Other Quotes
Related Quotes
人の意見を聞いてから出る知恵は、本当の知恵ではない。
-- Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Youth on horseback has passed. The world is at peace and white hairs multiply. With what remains of life that heaven permits, how can I not enjoy it?
-- Date Masamune
A man who wants neither life, nor fame, nor rank, nor money — such a man is the hardest to deal with.
-- Saigō Takamori
Let the world say what it will about me. Only I know what I must do.
-- Sakamoto Ryōma
Eis ton kratiston. (To the strongest.)
-- Alexander the Great
I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity.
-- Alexander the Great