23 Quotes by Robert Trout

The British seizure of Hongkong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the British Empire: the takeover and destruction of India, and the use of India to flood China with opium.

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

Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats.

The East India Company's domination of the Indian economy was based on its private army.

Leibniz dedicated his life to efforts to educate people to understand that true happiness is found by locating their identity in benefitting mankind and their posterity.

We fear doing too little when we should do more. Then atone by doing too much, when perhaps we should do less.

At midnight on July 1, 1997, Hongkong, the British Crown Colony, will be restored to China. This is not only an event which will be celebrated by patriotic Chinese; any patriotic American should celebrate it as well.

Confucianism strongly condemned the use of drugs like opium.

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