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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow man.