By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.

I do desire we may be better strangers.

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

When you name yourself, you always name another.

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

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

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

If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.

Other nations use “force”; we Britons alone use “might.”

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

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.

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