We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.

The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.

Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.

No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.

When you name yourself, you always name another.

This is not a clash between civilizations. It is a clash about civilization.

Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it.

One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.

Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.

In settling an island, the first building erected by a Spaniard will be a church, by a Frenchman a fort, by a Dutchman a warehouse, and by an Englishman an alehouse.