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

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

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

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

The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow man.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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