“When a man must be afraid to drink freely from his country's river and streams that country is no longer fit to live in. ”

“Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.”

“When a Westerner meets someone from a poor country, he feels deep contempt. He assumes that the poor man's head must be full of all the nonsense that plunged his country into poverty and despair.”

“Ingratitude is amongst them a capital crime, as we read it to have been in some other countries: for they reason thus; that whoever makes ill-returns to his benefactor, must needs be a common enemy to the rest of the mankind, from where he has received no obligations and therefore such man is not fit to live.”

“A man's feet must be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.”

“This here's a hard country. If a man ain't fit, he can't last - Kilkenny”