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War means the end of us all. Mankind is morally incapable of enduring another war, the horrors of which will surpass everything that has occurred hitherto. War would mean the end of Christian civilization.

— Pierre Laval

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We will always be neighbours of Germany. We face the alternative of reaching an agreement with her or of clashing every twenty years on the battlefield.

Remarks to his private secretary (1931)

Mr Chamberlain is right to refuse to intervene in Spain, just as he is right to re-establish good relations with Italy. I hope that my country will not delay too long in following England's example.

I desire the victory of Germany, for without it, bolshevism would tomorrow install itself everywhere.

I have always had simple ideas in politics. People take me for a shyster, but they don't know me. What I do is so simple that it looks to those who don't understand like something very complicated.

I consider agreement between Italy and France, that is to say between the Latin countries, including Nationalist Spain as well, as my life's mission.

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