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

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.

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.

All of life is a foreign country.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.

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.

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

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

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

Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow man.