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

Any nation that refuses to hold intercourse with other nations must expect to be excluded from this family.

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.

If war should break out between England and Japan, the latter would suffer much more than the former.

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

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.

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