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France has neither winter, summer, nor morals—apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.

—Mark Twain, 1879

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.

—George W. Bush, 2004

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

—Marcus Aurelius, c. 175

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

—L.P. Hartley, 1953

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

I am a man: I consider nothing human alien to me.

—Terence, 163 BC

All of life is a foreign country.

—Jack Kerouac, 1949

Who sees all beings in his own self, and his own self in all beings, loses all fear.

—The Upanishads, c. 800 BC

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

—Horace Walpole, 1745

Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.

—Albert Einstein, 1929

When you name yourself, you always name another.

—Bertolt Brecht, 1926
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