When you name yourself, you always name another.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own thoughts, unguarded.

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.