England is a great and powerful nation, foremost in human progress, enemy to despotism, the only safe refuge for the exile, friend of the oppressed. If ever England should be so circumstanced as to require the help of anyally, cursed be the Italian who would not step forward with me in her defence.

-Garibaldi, Giuseppe
  Letter,12  Apr.

Dilexi iustitiam et odi iniquitatem, propterea morior in exilio. I have loved righteousness and hated iniquity, and therefore I die in exile.

-Pope Gregory VII also known as Hildebrand
  Last words. Quoted in Christopher Brooke Europe in the Central Middle Ages 962^1154 (1964), ch.15.

Delicatus ille est adhuc cui patria dulcis est. Fortis autem jam cui omne solum patria est, perfectus vero cui mundus totus exsilium est. He whose own homeland is sweet to him is a mere beginner. He to whom every soil is as his native land is strong. But he to whom the whole world is a place of exile has achieved perfection.

-Hugh of St Victor
c.1127  Didascalicon, bk.3, ch.20.

Take up the White Man's burdenö Send forth the best ye breedö Go, bind your sons to exile To serve your captives'need.

-Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard
  'The White Man's Burden'.

Arma virumque cano,Troiae qui primus ab oris Italiam fato profugus Laviniaque venit Litora. Thisis a tale of arms and of a man.Fated to be an exile, he wasthe first tosail fromtheland of Troyand reach Italy, at its Lavinian shore.

-Virgil full name Publius Vergilius Maro
Aeneid, opening lines (translated byW F Jackson Knight).

There were many ways of not burdening one's conscience, of shunning responsibility, looking away, keeping silent.When the unspeakable truth of the Holocaust became known at the end of the war, all too many of us claimed that they had not known anything about it, orevensuspectedanything† Whoeverrefuses to remember the inhumanity is prone to new risks of infection† Seeking to forget makes exile all the longer; the secret of redemption lies in remembrance.

-Weizsa«  cker, Richard Freiherr, Baron von
  On the 40th anniversary of the end of WorldWar II, in the NewYorkTimes,12 May.

What captivity was to the Jews, exile has been to the Irish: America and American influence have educated them. Their first practical leader is an Irish-American.

-Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills
  Of Charles Stewart Parnell.'TheTwo Chiefs of Dunboy: or, an Irish Romance of the Last Century'in Pall Mall Gazette,13 Apr.