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

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.

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

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

I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again and again: your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars.

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

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.

Africa has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them.

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.

Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.

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.”

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