The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.

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

I do desire we may be better strangers.

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

Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it.

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

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

When you name yourself, you always name another.

In settling an island, the first building erected by a Spaniard will be a church, by a Frenchman a fort, by a Dutchman a warehouse, and by an Englishman an alehouse.

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.

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

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