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.

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

Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow man.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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