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"The President of the United States thinks that for the Japanese opium is more dangerous than war."
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"Well the war lasted for three months, from April of 1994 until the Tutsi army, the exiles as it were, gained control of the country and then it stopped."
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"This programme to stop nuclear by 2020 is just crazy. If there were a nuclear war, and humanity were wiped out, the Earth would breathe a sigh of relief."
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"The only defensible war is a war of defense."
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"War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it."
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"It would be immoral to walk away from the consequences of our actions, leaving behind anarchy and civil war in Iraq."
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"Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting."
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"War is the most evil kind of human approach, unless it is for good cause."
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"In a war, the first casualty is human dignity."
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"The tank, the submarine, the torpedo, the machine-gun, even the rifle and the hand grenade are still in use."
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"I had seen the films out of World War II, the great 82nd Airborne, the 101st, and all of those of you in the greatest generation and the service that you had provided."
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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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"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 President regards the Japanese as a brave people; but courage, though useful in time of war, is subordinate to knowledge of arts; hence, courage without such knowledge is not to be highly esteemed."
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"Since the invention of steamships distant countries have become like those that are near at hand."
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"Any nation that refuses to hold intercourse with other nations must expect to be excluded from this family."
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"The President is of opinion that if Japan makes a treaty with the United States, all other foreign countries will make the same kind of a treaty, and Japan will be safe thereafter."
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"If Japan had been near to either England or France, war would have broken out long ago."
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