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

—Denis Diderot, 1774

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

—Theodor Adorno, 1951

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

—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1883

When the missionaries first came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said, “Let us pray.” We closed our eyes. When we opened them, we had the Bible and they had the land.

—Desmond Tutu, 1984

Some of us would be greatly astonished to learn the reasons why others respect us.

—Marquis de Vauvenargues, 1746

Africa has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them.

—Miriam Makeba, 1988

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

—Terence, 163 BC

France has neither winter, summer, nor morals—apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.

—Mark Twain, 1879

No man has any natural authority over his fellow man.

—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762

One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.

—E.B. White, 1958

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

—Henry Clay, 1812

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.

—George W. Bush, 2004
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