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

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

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

Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

All of life is a foreign country.

The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.

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

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

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.

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

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