Burning is no answer.

The king reigns but does not govern.

There wasn't anti-Semitism in France.

Mankind's suffering belongs to all men.

Clemency is also a revolutionary measure.

Everyone sees drama from his own perspective.

There was no reason to label us as anti-Semitic.

Taxation is the legitimate support of government.

Let me pass, I have to follow them, I am their leader.

We have to prepare for the worst, and the worst is war.

The second world war claimed tens of millions of victims.

The suffering caused by the terrorists is the real torture.

I want to tell you that I think this war is a great mistake.

Man has a primary property right to his person and his labor.

Im always suspicious of people who repent of other peoples sins.

Ireland is a little country which raises all the great questions.

I'm always suspicious of people who repent of other people's sins.

In spite of their hats being very ugly, Goddam! I love the English.

The tree of liberty grows only when watered by the blood of tyrants.

But the same intelligence compels Germany to practise the same policy.

The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong.

You cannot speak on behalf of a nation when you have no mandate to do so.

There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I can lead them.

For those who govern, the first thing required is indifference to newspapers.

In my speeches, I always condemned communism, national-socialism and fascism.

Politics is the art of postponing decisions until they are no longer relevant.

I'm not saying that the gas chambers didn't exist. I couldn't see them myself.

When a king creates an office, Providence creates immediately a fool to buy it.

In politics it is necessary to take nothing tragically and everything seriously.

If we had not been dealing with the devil in person, we could have saved Algeria.

The fact is that automobiles no longer have a place in the big cities of our time.

If we don't take the necessary measures, famine will be the scandal of this century.

We have given most of Europe to Hitler. Let us try to hold on to what we have got left.

What's surprising is that the people who fought against torture here are the communists.

If you meet a woman in a burqa, she can't reply to your smile. It's a denial of identity.

Marine Le Pen may want me dead, that's possible, but she must not count on my co-operation

I am thirty-three - the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

The Vichy government was under occupation and carried out the orders of the German occupier.

I invite everyone to chose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition.

I have never understood why public opinion about European ideas should be taken into account.

Nothing has ever remained of any revolution but what was ripe in the conscience of the masses.

France must be an example to the world in the quality of its food, starting with its children.

An ancient dictum says that when Zeus wanted to destroy someone, he would first drive him mad.

My father was killed by a German mine, while I lost other relatives in Allied bombing attacks.

The much greater crimes of the Soviet Gulags occurred over decades and cost millions of lives.

There is an Islamic population in France, most of which comes from the North African countries.

Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.

It is in order that France may find her place in the new Europe that you will respond to my appeal.

France was an occupied country, a country that surrendered and was left without the right to choose.

It is neither the statesman nor the friend who is asking your help and assistance, but simply the man.

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