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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.

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

No man has any natural authority over his fellow man.