Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.

Such then is the human state, that to wish greatness for one’s country is to wish harm to one’s neighbors.

Some of us would be greatly astonished to learn the reasons why others respect us.

“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.

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.

To think ill of mankind, and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

To need to dominate others is to need others. The commander is dependent.

When the missionaries first came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said, “Let us pray.” We closed our eyes. When we opened them, we had the Bible and they had the land.

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 almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.

Of troubles none is greater than to be robbed of one’s native land.

Nothing is more narrow-minded than chauvinism or racial hatred. To me all men are equal; there are flatheads everywhere and I despise them all equally.

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