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

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

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.

All of life is a foreign country.

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

Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.

I do desire we may be better strangers.

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.

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

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

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

The misfortune of the man of color is having been enslaved. The misfortune and inhumanity of the white man are having killed man somewhere.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow man.