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"If I write in my name to the agents of England and France residing in Asia and inform them that Japan is ready to make a commercial treaty with their countries, the number of steamers will be reduced from fifty to two or three."
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"Now, most of the new immigrants coming to this country are from Asia as opposed to Europe."
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"We're a nation of liars. But I mean that in the kindest sense."
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"Every nation must have prayerful men and women to intercede for the country's well-being."
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"A nation aimlessly drifting away from God is a nation for which prayer is a rudder and praise is a sail. And it is the man or woman on their knees that builds the former and gives wind to the latter."
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"America; a country that was discovered is now a discovery and making discoveries! America is America not because of the name America, but because of the great hands and minds who made the name America be America!"
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"The desired modernization and rationalisation of Turkey will never be realised till the day the Modern Turks of AtatA1?4rk come to power because only modern and rational minds can create a modern and a rational country!"
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"The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced."
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"As a South African I honestly cannot understand how people can't see South Africa as a unique nation, untied by ties of history, bonds of suffering, victory, struggles, hope - and in more ways than I ever before thought possible - blood."
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"Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors."
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"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."
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"The President wishes the Japanese to be very prudent about the introduction of opium, and if a treaty is made, he wishes that opium may be strictly prohibited."
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"It appears that the English think the Japanese... are fond of opium, and they want to bring it here also."
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"Two things are desired in order that intercourse may be had: First, that a minister or agent be allowed to reside at the capital. Second, that commerce between different countries be freely allowed."
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"If I write in my name to the agents of England and France residing in Asia and inform them that Japan is ready to make a commercial treaty with their countries, the number of steamers will be reduced from fifty to two or three."
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"We do not wish to open your ports to foreign trade all at once."
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"It will be quite satisfactory if you open them gradually, as the circumstances may require; but the President assures you that this will not be the case if you make a treaty with England first."
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"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."
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"In time of war steamships and improved arms are the most important things."
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"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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