Any nation that refuses to hold intercourse with other nations must expect to be excluded from this family.

Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.

We maintain and hold that Muslims and Hindus are two major nations by any definition or test of a nation.

As the treaty made with the United States was the first treaty entered into by your country with other countries, therefore the President regards Japan with peculiar friendliness.

When the ambassadors of other foreign countries come to Japan to make treaties, they can be told that such and such a treaty has been made with the ambassador of the United States, and they will rest satisfied with this.

One's nativity is not of his own choosing, but whatever it may be, it is entitled to respect; and all nations have honorable place in the world's family.