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.

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

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

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.

I do desire we may be better strangers.

Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.

Africa has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them.

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

The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.

Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.

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

Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own thoughts, unguarded.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow man.