Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

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

There is no foreign land; it is the traveler only that is foreign.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow man.

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.

If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.

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

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.

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

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

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

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

Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.