Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.

The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.

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.

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

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.

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

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

In settling an island, the first building erected by a Spaniard will be a church, by a Frenchman a fort, by a Dutchman a warehouse, and by an Englishman an alehouse.

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

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