I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again and again: your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars.

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

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

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