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Robert Trout

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


— Robert Trout


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


— Robert Trout


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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.


— Robert Trout


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Confucianism strongly condemned the use of drugs like opium.


— Robert Trout


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In order for a society to survive, it must generate a sufficient level of physical production both to meet its current needs, and to produce a surplus for upgrading its productive powers.


— Robert Trout


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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.


— Robert Trout


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The American Revolution was, in fact, a battle against the philosophy of Locke and the English utilitarians.


— 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.


— Robert Trout


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The East India Company established a monopoly over the production of opium, shortly after taking over Bengal.


— Robert Trout


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


— Robert Trout


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About Robert Trout






Did you know about Robert Trout?

Trout remained on radio but also did in-depth news features for the TV network including field reports for the CBS News broadcast 60 Minutes. Trout told and played for the NPR listeners what actually happened on CBS Radio at that moment. ) He was the man who used the on-air label "fireside chat" to regular radio broadcasts of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt during the Great Depression and World War II.

He became known to some as the "Iron Man of Radio" for his ability to ad lib while on the air as well as his stamina composure and elocution. Robert "Bob" Trout (October 15 1909 - November 14 2000) was an American broadcast news reporter best known for his radio work before and during World War II.

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