I am not, nor ever have been, in favour of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races — that I am not nor ever have been in favour of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office. — Abraham Lincoln in an 1858 speech
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51