American - Journalist | October 15, 1909 - November 14, 2000
A successful society is characterized by a rising living standard for its population, increasing investment in factories and basic infrastructure, and the generation of additional surplus, which is invested in generating new discoveries in science and technology.
Robert Trout
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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.
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Many Chinese saw opium as a poison introduced by foreign enemies.
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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.
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Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats.
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The East India Company established a monopoly over the production of opium, shortly after taking over Bengal.
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We fear doing too little when we should do more. Then atone by doing too much, when perhaps we should do less.
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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.
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Confucianism strongly condemned the use of drugs like opium.
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The East India Company's domination of the Indian economy was based on its private army.
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The British system denied any role for human creativity, and instead argued, that if man merely followed his hedonistic desires, pursuing pleasure and avoiding pain, objective laws would naturally guide society to achieve the best allocation of wealth.
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Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived.
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