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Dictatorships are like a good many other things in this world. They can be the best, or the worst, form of government.
There are some excellent dictatorships, and there are some hateful ones.

— Jacques Bainville Dictators (1937)

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You will understand and know the German Republic better when it elects Hindenburg president.

Nothing is more false than the axiom that governments are belligerent and peoples are pacific.

Monarchist or collectivist, Germany will not change its nature.

In countries where, as in France, there is still an agricultural population and a majority of propriétaires, one need not fear social subversion.

In order to avoid being unsettled by Bolshevism and its substitutes, one must be conscious of the superiority of Western civilization.

Couleurs du Temps (1928)

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