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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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"Democracy, freedom and liberty do not make us more than what we are; it is our commitment that matters."
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"You don't necessarily need atomic bombs to destroy a nation. Politicians who value their pockets than the life of citizens always do that every day."
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"We are a little land. And little lands on the borders of a great empire were always hateful to the lords of the great empire. He longs to blot them out, gobble them up."
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"Let the war turn off the families. Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge."
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"Money has always been in politics. And I'm not sure you'd want money to be completely out of politics."
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"All professions are a conspiracy against the country."
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"It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan."
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"Our Supreme Court is not a court of law. It is a court of conjecture and political fad."
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"Right is what benefits a nation, even if it is against the will of the people."
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"Canada remains alienated from its allies, shut out of the reconstruction process to some degree, unable to influence events. There is no upside to the position Canada took."
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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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"It appears that the English think the Japanese... are fond of opium, and they want to bring it here also."
Politics
"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
"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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"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."
Nation
"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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"We do not wish to open your ports to foreign trade all at once."
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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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"The nations of the West hope that by means of steam communication all the world will become as one family."
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"In time of war steamships and improved arms are the most important things."
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