Emperor Godaigo's conception of politics is encapsulated best by his speech, recorded in the "Baishoron" (a war chronicle of the Nanboku period): 'Even the examples and precedents of today were once new principles.
後醍醐天皇が政治理念を標榜した言葉として『梅松論』にある「現在の例もかつては新義であった。