Townsend Harris Quotes

• Open the doors to all. Let the children of the rich and the poor take their seats together and know of no distinction save that of industry, good conduct, and intellect.

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  Children, Doors, Together

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• Since the invention of steamships distant countries have become like those that are near at hand.

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  Country, Hands, Invention

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• El gasto de una guerra podría pagarse con el tiempo; pero el gasto del opio, una vez creado el hábito, sólo aumentará con el tiempo.

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  War, Habit, Increase

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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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  Country, Japan, Desire

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• The President of the United States thinks that for the Japanese opium is more dangerous than war.

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  War, Thinking, President

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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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  Intercourse, Refuse, Nations

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• Cuando los embajadores de otros países extranjeros vienen a Japón para firmar tratados, se les puede decir que se ha firmado tal o cual tratado con el embajador de Estados Unidos, y se quedarán satisfechos con ello.

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  Country, Japan, United States

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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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  Communication, Mean, World

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• 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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  Country, Japan, President

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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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  Country, Writing, Numbers

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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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  Country, Desire, United States

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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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  Wish, President, May

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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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  Desire, Firsts, England

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• In time of war steamships and improved arms are the most important things.

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  War, Important, Arms

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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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  War, Japan, Long Ago

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• By means of steam one can go from California to Japan in eighteen days.

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  Mean, Japan, California

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• Se desean dos cosas para poder mantener relaciones: Primero, que se permita a un ministro o agente residir en la capital. Segundo, que se permita libremente el comercio entre diferentes países.

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  Country, Order, Two

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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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  War, Ends, Made

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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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  War, Japan, Suffering

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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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  Thinking, Want, Affection

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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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  Arte, Guerra, Gente

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