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.

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.

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

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

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

I do desire we may be better strangers.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.

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.