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

Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.

I am a man: I consider nothing human alien to me.

Other nations use “force”; we Britons alone use “might.”

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

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.

Strangers are an endangered species.

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

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

I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.

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.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

Let the French but have England, and they won’t want to conquer it.