top of page
.png){kind=small}
"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."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Nation quotes
"Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right."
"Japan is an important ally of ours. Japan and the United States of the Western industrialized capacity, 60 percent of the GNP, two countries. That's a statement in and of itself."
"A house in the country is not the same as a country house."
"What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country."
"Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held."
"That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings."
"One year after the United States led the invasion of Iraq, the country remains extremely dangerous not only to our troops, but also to the stability of the world."
Explore more quotes by Townsend Harris
"Any nation that refuses to hold intercourse with other nations must expect to be excluded from this family."
"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."
"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."
"If war should break out between England and Japan, the latter would suffer much more than the former."
"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."
"The President of the United States thinks that for the Japanese opium is more dangerous than war."
"It appears that the English think the Japanese... are fond of opium, and they want to bring it here also."
"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."
bottom of page