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The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

—L.P. Hartley, 1953

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.

—Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1940

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

—Henry Clay, 1812

Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1839

Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.

—Albert Einstein, 1929

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

—Horace Walpole, 1745

One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.

—E.B. White, 1958

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.

—Karl Kraus, 1909

France has neither winter, summer, nor morals—apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.

—Mark Twain, 1879

Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it.

—Hebrews, c. 60

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

—Aleister Crowley, c. 1925

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

—Theodor Adorno, 1951

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

—William Hazlitt, 1823