Some of us would be greatly astonished to learn the reasons why others respect us.

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.

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.

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

I do desire we may be better strangers.

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.

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

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

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

This is not a clash between civilizations. It is a clash about civilization.

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

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.

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