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

— Jacques Bainville

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

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)

When one has millions and millions of yellow and black subjects what a strange idea it is to proclaim the principle of popular self-determination.

L'Angleterre et l'Empire Britannique (1938)

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Ill can he rule the great, that cannot reach the small.

Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene (1589)

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

James Madison

Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.

Leon Trotsky The Revolution Betrayed (1936)

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

John Adams

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