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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…
• Open the doors to all. Let the children of the rich and the poor take their seats together and know of no…
• The nations of the West hope that by means of steam communication all the world will become as one family.
• It appears that the English think the Japanese... are fond of opium, and they want to bring it here also.
• If war should break out between England and Japan, the latter would suffer much more than the former.
• In case of war, a treaty would have to be made at the end of the war.
• Two things are desired in order that intercourse may be had: First, that a minister or agent be allowed to reside at…
• Any nation that refuses to hold intercourse with other nations must expect to be excluded from this family.
• By means of steam one can go from California to Japan in eighteen days.
• If Japan had been near to either England or France, war would have broken out long ago.
• In time of war steamships and improved arms are the most important things.
• Since the invention of steamships distant countries have become like those that are near at hand.

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