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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

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

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

I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.

It’s good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for a while their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.

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