The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.

Of troubles none is greater than to be robbed of one’s native land.

All men naturally hate each other. We have used concupiscence as best we can to make it serve the common good, but this is mere sham and a false image of charity, for essentially it is just hate.

To need to dominate others is to need others. The commander is dependent.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

When you name yourself, you always name another.

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.

Let the French but have England, and they won’t want to conquer it.

Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.

All of life is a foreign country.

Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.

By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.