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

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

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

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.

All men naturally hate each other. We have used concupiscence as best we can to make it serve the common good, but this is mere sham and a false image of charity, for essentially it is just hate.

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

I am a man: I consider nothing human alien to me.

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.

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.

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.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

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