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.

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

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.

The misfortune of the man of color is having been enslaved. The misfortune and inhumanity of the white man are having killed man somewhere.

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

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.

The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.

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

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

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

I do desire we may be better strangers.

Such then is the human state, that to wish greatness for one’s country is to wish harm to one’s neighbors.