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

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.

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

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

When you name yourself, you always name another.

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.

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.

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

All of life is a foreign country.

Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.

France has neither winter, summer, nor morals—apart from these drawbacks it is a fine 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.

By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.