Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

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.

“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.

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

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

There is no foreign land; it is the traveler only that is foreign.

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.

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.

Some of us would be greatly astonished to learn the reasons why others respect us.

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

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