Let a king recall that it is better to improve his realm than to increase his territory.

-Erasmus, Desiderius originally  Gerrit Gerritszoon
  Querela Pacis.

Not an inch of our territory or a stone of our fortresses.

-Favre,Jules Claude Gabriel
  Reply to Bismarck's demands for concessions,18 Sep, following France's defeat in the Franco-Prussian War. Quoted in A  J P  Taylor TheStruggle for Mastery in Europe1848^1918 (1954), p.212.

   Wenn das deutscheVolk dieWaffen niederlegte, wu«  rden die Sowjets†ganz Ost- und Su« d osteuropa zuzu«  glich des gr o« ÞtenTeiles des Reiches besetzen.Vor diesem einschlieÞlich der Sowjetunion riesigenTerritorium wu«  rde sich sofort ein eisernerVorhang heruntersenken. Should the German people lay down their arms, the Soviets†would occupyall eastern and south-eastern Europe together with the greater part of the Reich.Over all thisterritory, whichwith the Soviet Unionwould be of enormous extent, an iron curtain would at once descend. See also Churchill 217:92.

-Goebbels, (Paul) Joseph
  In Das Reich, a Nazi propaganda weekly, quoted in The Times and the Manchester Guardian on 23 Feb.

It is very uncivilised to invade British territory.You are here illegally.

-Hunt, Sir Rex
   Attributed remark to an  Argentinian general. Quoted in Life,  Jan1983.

A salesman isgot to dream, boy. It comes with the territory.

-Miller, Arthur
  Charley. Death of a Salesman,'Requiem'.

La presse exerce encore un immense pouvoir en Ame¤  rique. Elle fait circuler la vie politique dans toutes les portions de ce vaste territoire. C'est elle dont l'½il toujours ouvert met sans cesse a'   nu les secrets ressorts de la politique, et force les hommes publics a'   venir tour a' tour compara|"tre devant le tribunal de l'opinion. C'est elle qui rallie les inte¤  re"  ts autour de certaines doctrines et formule le symbole des partis; c'est par elle que ceux-ci se parlent sans se voir, s'entendent sans e"  tre mis en contact. The presshas enormous power in America.It isthe press that circulates political life through all parts of this vast territory. Its eye is always open, and making known the secret springs of politics, thus forcing public men to appear before the tribunal of public opinion. It is the press which rallies the interests of the community round certain principles and forms the creed of different parties. Through the press these parties can speak to each other without seeing each other, can listenwithout meeting.

-Tocqueville, Alexis Charles Henri Cle¤  rel de
^40  De la De¤  mocratie en Ame¤  rique (Democracy in America), vol.1, pt.2, ch.3.

But Ireckon Igot to light out for theterritoryahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me, and I can't stand it. I been there before.

-Twain, Mark pseudonym of  Samuel Langhorne Clemens
  Huck.TheAdventures of Huckleberry Finn, closing words.