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Townsend Harris

"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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"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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"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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"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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"If Japan had been near to either England or France, war would have broken out long ago."
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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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"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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"If war should break out between England and Japan, the latter would suffer much more than the former."
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