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

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.

In case of war, a treaty would have to be made at the end of the war.

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

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.

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.

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.