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Neither Germany nor Italy have doubts. Our crisis is not a material crisis. We have lost faith in our destiny...We are like mariners without a pilot.

— Philippe Pétain

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La terre, elle, ne ment pas [The land, it does not lie].

France will become again what she should never have ceased to be—an essentially agricultural nation. Like the giant of mythology, she will recover all her strength by contact with the soil.

The new regime will be a social hierarchy. It will no longer be based on the false idea of man's natural equality.

The land, it does not lie.

The only wealth you possess is your labour... France will become again what she should never have ceased to be—an essentially agricultural nation. Like the giant of mythology, she will recover all her strength by contact with the soil.

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Love is the active, working principle in all true faith. It is its very soul, without which it is dead. "Faith works by love."

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