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"We do not wish to open your ports to foreign trade all at once."
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"Democracy is not perfect. It is an imperfection that the majority choose to support."
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"The Church of England is the Tory party at prayer."
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"Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort."
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"There is this common notion that young conservatives are the few, that most people had liberal worldviews when they were young. If this is true, then it is with great irony that a number of old liberals must never had progressed into conservatives as they grew older."
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"The most dangerous thing to the USA population is not North Korea, it is the USA government."
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"If you are stupid enough not to know the difference between the devil and the angel, you quickly find the devil! This is what happens to most people in democracies just after elections!"
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"A hundred words put together to formulate an excuse will never resolve a conflict, political justifications are silly lies."
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"On the Night of the Halloween, I have never seen any evil apparition or fearsome ghost but politicians on TV! They are the real goblins and specters!"
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"Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics."
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"To vote or not... it really doesn't matter it = 1 vote... as for the others with one vote somebody could beat you."
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"We do not wish to open your ports to foreign trade all at once."
Politics
"In time of war steamships and improved arms are the most important things."
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"If war should break out between England and Japan, the latter would suffer much more than the former."
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"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."
Nation
"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."
Nation
"It appears that the English think the Japanese... are fond of opium, and they want to bring it here also."
Politics
"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."
Nation
"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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"If you make a treaty first with the United States and settle the matter of the opium trade, England cannot change this, though she should desire to do so."
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"In case of war, a treaty would have to be made at the end of the war."
War
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