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

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.

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

Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.

Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.

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

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

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.

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

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

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

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

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