Townsend Harris Quotes About Opium

• It appears that the English think the Japanese... are fond of opium, and they want to bring it here also.

  Townsend Harris

  Thinking, Want, Affection

• 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.

  Townsend Harris

  War, Habit, Increase

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

  Townsend Harris

  War, Thinking, President

• 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.

  Townsend Harris

  Desire, Firsts, England

• 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.

  Townsend Harris

  Wish, President, May

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