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

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

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

No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.

Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.

Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

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.

Such then is the human state, that to wish greatness for one’s country is to wish harm to one’s neighbors.

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

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

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