One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.

We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.

Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.

Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.

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.

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

Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.

Of troubles none is greater than to be robbed of one’s native land.

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.

To need to dominate others is to need others. The commander is dependent.

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