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I think you can go back in history and look at what the effect in Asia and the world was of a divided, fractured China from, you know, the opium wars through the Chinese civil war, and I don't think it was pretty for Asia or the world. -- Dennis C. Blair
The President of the United States thinks that for the Japanese opium is more dangerous than war. -- Townsend Harris
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

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