No man has any natural authority over his fellow man.

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

A criminal may improve and become a decent member of society. A foreigner cannot improve. Once a foreigner, always a foreigner. There is no way out for him.

Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.

Let the French but have England, and they won’t want to conquer it.

There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.

If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.

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

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

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

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

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