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.

All of life is a foreign country.

I do desire we may be better strangers.

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

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.

This is not a clash between civilizations. It is a clash about civilization.

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.

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

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

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

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