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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.

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

Many Chinese saw opium as a poison introduced by foreign enemies.

There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.

The young Japanese, especially, love to wear the latest thing and when they come to London they head for my shops as part of what they want to find in Britain.

Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived.

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.

Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.

The recipe to an unhappy life in Japan is to want to be Japanese if you are not. Anyone who wants to penetrate the country is setting themselves up for tears and disappointment.

To hear the Japanese plead for free trade is like hearing the word love on the lips of a harlot.