Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.

Strangers are an endangered species.

The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.

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

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

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

No man has any natural authority over his fellow man.

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

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

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.

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

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