First Opium War/opium War 1839-42

Famous quotes containing the words opium and/or war:

    What opium is instilled into all disaster? It shows formidable as we approach it, but there is at last no rough rasping friction, but the most slippery sliding surfaces. We fall soft on a thought.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    All war represents a failure of diplomacy.
    Tony Benn (b. 1925)