Pierre Laval Quotes

There is a certain dignity to being French.

I am a native Frenchwoman and proud of it.

I am French. I was born here, I live here and France is my cultural identity.

I am typically French.

Being French, to me, is first and foremost being a revolutionary.

We must return to the French the pride of being French.

The French nation is more important than football.

France will always be France no matter what, but America involves striving toward an ideal.

I like traditions, and the national anthem is important.

The idea of England in decline is very attractive.

Some fatherlands are difficult. Germany is one of them. But it is our fatherland. Here is where we live and work.

The French never allow a distinguished son of France to lack a statue.

We must teach our people the greatness of China's historical culture. In our educational program we must stress Chinese history and geography so that all may know and appreciate China's civilization of five thousand years and the far-flung boundaries of our ancient race. This will engender a greater faith in our own future.

The conviction of our Ukrainian nation is embedded in the pages of its history.

The traditions of a nation are very important and the anthem written by Francis Scott Key in the early days of our nation should always be revered.

What unites us is an unconditional love for France.

Ukraine must once again be revered and respected by its citizens as well as the East and the West.

And one cannot discharge the duty of loyalty without the patient and an open minded study of the institution that marked the country and defined its character.

It’s a little strange, this obsession with the flag. It’s incomprehensible to someone who comes from a country where the flag has, so to speak, disappeared, where any nostalgia and concern for it is a sign of an attachment to the past…

France is a beacon for the human race. The nation and its people may be loved or hated, but they can never be ignored.

I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomiting. I cannot prevent the French from being French.

France cannot be France without grandeur.

You do not understand the honor of France!

France is an old country that does not forget.

The day France remembers that she was and must be the salvation of the human race, when she gathers her children about her and teaches them France as faith and religion, that day she will once again be alive, and as firm as the earth itself.