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

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

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.

No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.

If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.

When you name yourself, you always name another.

When the missionaries first came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said, “Let us pray.” We closed our eyes. When we opened them, we had the Bible and they had the land.

Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.

I do desire we may be better strangers.

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.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

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.