A criminal may improve and become a decent member of society. A foreigner cannot improve. Once a foreigner, always a foreigner. There is no way out for him.

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

The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.

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

The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow man.

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

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

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

All of life is a foreign country.

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.

There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.

Strangers are an endangered species.