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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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"Afraid no, I wasn't afraid but it was an unusual thing, it was an unusual feeling. It was an unusual atmosphere for me having grown up in this country and, and, and never seeing anything like that."
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"Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors."
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"I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount."
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"There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms."
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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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"California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that."
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"A wise traveler never despises his own country."
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"No holidays, no country."
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"I think we have to be fair in saying at this point that neither Roosevelt nor Lewis realized the peril to which they were exposing both the unions and the country."
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"The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris."
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"In time of war steamships and improved arms are the most important things."
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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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"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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"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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"In case of war, a treaty would have to be made at the end of the war."
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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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"The United States have no possessions in the east and do not desire to have any, as other countries do."
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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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"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."
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