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Human history is a record of struggles between those who save and those who spend, between producers and consumers. These struggles have sometimes assumed the character of civil wars. It is the case of one tribe wanting to appropriate the more fertile soil and wealth of another tribe, or else within the same tribe, the have-nots wanting to expropriate the haves.

— Jacques Bainville Paraboles hyperboliques (1931)

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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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