What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.
It is the superfluous things for which men sweat - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare that force us to grow old in camp that dash us upon foreign shores.
Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men between brothers?
Personally I like two types of men - domestic and foreign.
Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants.
For me French is so rich and so sacred that learning it is like learning a foreign language.
Playing golf is like learning a foreign language.
Basketball in America is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is difficult to learn foreign languages and it will also be difficult for me to learn the culture for basketball here.
I can't talk about foreign policy like anyone who's spent their life reading and learning foreign policy. But as a citizen in a democracy it's very important that I participate in that.
Learning a foreign language and the culture that goes with it is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children.