To think ill of mankind, and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

I am a man: I consider nothing human alien to me.

A criminal may improve and become a decent member of society. A foreigner cannot improve. Once a foreigner, always a foreigner. There is no way out for him.

I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again and again: your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars.

Nothing is more narrow-minded than chauvinism or racial hatred. To me all men are equal; there are flatheads everywhere and I despise them all equally.

In settling an island, the first building erected by a Spaniard will be a church, by a Frenchman a fort, by a Dutchman a warehouse, and by an Englishman an alehouse.

We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

There is no foreign land; it is the traveler only that is foreign.

Other nations use “force”; we Britons alone use “might.”

Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.

One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.

Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.