“The internet liquefied physical borders faster than they were already doing on their own.”—Andrei Codrescu

“We always think ofborders as something that separates two peoples but of course they unite them. It’s something you have in common, literally.”—Don Winslow

“Frontiers are indeed the razor’s edgeon which hang suspended the modern issues of war or peace, of life or death to nations.”—Lord Curzon of Kedleston

“We (the British and the French) have been engaged in drawing lines upon maps were no white man’s foot ever trod: we have been giving away mountains and rivers and lakes to each other, only hindered by the small impediments that we never knew exactly where the mountains and rivers and lakes were.”— Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury

“When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will.”—Frederic Bastiat

“To be called a sovereign nation, a nation has to be able to control its own borders.”—Tom Tancredo

“Borders may divide us, but, paradoxically, they’re also the places where we’re nearest to one another.”—Ken Jennings

“Often borders are thought of as passive objects, or matter-of-factly just as edges. However, a border exerts an active influence.”—Jane Jacobs

“A nation without borders is like a house without walls – it collapses.”—Jan Brewer

“Good fences make good neighbours”—Robert Frost