Peru is a country where more than half the people would emigrate if given the chance. That's half the population that is willing to abandon everything they know for the uncertainty of a life in a foreign land, in another language.

You annex foreign land, not your own country.

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.

Study a foreign language if you have opportunity to do so. You may never be called to a land where that language is spoken, but the study will have given you a better understanding of your own tongue or of another tongue you may be asked to acquire.

I think science is a foreign land for many people, so I think of my role as an ambassador's job.

Today, the rich bottom land of the Misssissippi is under water and no foreign land has sent a dollar to help.