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"In time of war steamships and improved arms are the most important things."
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"Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke."
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"Any nation that refuses to hold intercourse with other nations must expect to be excluded from this family."
"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."
"We were sent to this country by the President, who desires to promote the welfare of Japan, and are quite different from the ambassadors of other countries."
"If war should break out between England and Japan, the latter would suffer much more than the former."
"Japan and China are isolated and without intercourse with other countries; hence the President directed me to attend to or watch the state of affairs in China also."
"The President of the United States thinks that for the Japanese opium is more dangerous than war."
"It appears that the English think the Japanese... are fond of opium, and they want to bring it here also."
"The expense of a war could be paid in time; but the expense of opium, when once the habit is formed, will only increase with time."
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