At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

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

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

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.

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

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

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.

“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.

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

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

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.

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.