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French Politician Inspirational Quotes (53)

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Freedom is when one hears the bell at seven o'clock in the morning and knows it is the milkman and not the Gestapo.
Georges Bidault
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Let me pass, I have to follow them, I am their leader.
Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin
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Nothing has ever remained of any revolution but what was ripe in the conscience of the masses.
Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin
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Taxation is the legitimate support of government.
Adolphe Thiers
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In politics it is necessary to take nothing tragically and everything seriously.
Adolphe Thiers
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Clemency is also a revolutionary measure.
Camille Desmoulins
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It is neither the statesman nor the friend who is asking your help and assistance, but simply the man.
Pierre Laval
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My father was killed by a German mine, while I lost other relatives in Allied bombing attacks. The Second World War claimed tens of millions of victims. For some the most terrible aspect of it was the deportations, while for others it was the leveling bombings or the mass deaths by starvation and cold.
Jean-Marie Le Pen
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In order to improve the condition of mankind all men must be given the certainty of security through the exchange of safeguards, the assurance of prosperity through an exchange of resources, the reality of freedom through the free movement of information, persons and ideas.
Antoine Pinay
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I am a peasant from the Auvergne. I want to keep my farm, and I want to keep France. Nothing else matters now.
Pierre Laval
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The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least possible amount of hissing.
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
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O my dear parishioners, let us endeavor to get to heaven! There we shall see God. How happy we shall feel! If the parish is converted we shall go there in procession with the parish priest at the head. . . We must get to heaven! What a pity it would be if some of you were to find yourselves on the other side!
Jean-Marie Le Pen
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You must either suffer in this life or give up the hope of seeing God in Heaven. Sufferings and persecutions are of the greatest avail to us, because we can find therein a very efficient means to make atonement for our sins, since we are bound to suffer for them either in this world or in the next.
Jean-Marie Le Pen
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Marine Le Pen may want me dead, that's possible, but she must not count on my co-operation
Jean-Marie Le Pen
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The objective is to pluck the geese in such a manner as to obtain the greatest number of feathers with the least amount of hissing.
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
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Mankind's suffering belongs to all men.
Bernard Kouchner
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Man has a primary property right to his person and his labor.
Adolphe Thiers
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Ireland is a little country which raises all the great questions.
Gustave de Beaumont
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France must be an example to the world in the quality of its food, starting with its children.
Bruno Le Maire
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The government would have preferred not to take a stand, but the constant presence of the Israeli-Arab conflict on our television screens made it an issue that could no longer be avoided.
Jean-Marie Le Pen
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Political rivals attacked me. I was savagely beaten. I was kicked in the face and I lost my eye as a result.
Jean-Marie Le Pen
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Workers of France, it is for the freedom of the prisoners that you will go to work in Germany! It is for our country that you will go in large numbers!
Pierre Laval
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We have to prepare for the worst, and the worst is war.
Bernard Kouchner
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What's surprising is that the people who fought against torture here are the communists.
Jean-Marie Le Pen
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