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No man has any natural authority over his fellow man.

—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762

I do desire we may be better strangers.

—William Shakespeare, 1600

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

—Samuel Johnson, 1751

Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1839

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

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

—Aleister Crowley, c. 1925

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

—L.P. Hartley, 1953

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.

—Maya Angelou, 2011

We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.

—Oscar Wilde, 1887

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

—Henry Clay, 1812

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.

—George Mikes, 1946

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

—Evelyn Waugh, 1938

There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.

—Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866