Jacques Chirac Quotes

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.

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

The French are people who think otherwise.

Only France has the right to project herself as a model, because no people has merged its own interest and destiny with that of humanity more than she.

The best picture I can give of the French Nation, is that of Cattle before a Thunder Storm.

France is an old country that does not forget.

The French are ... the most brilliant and the most dangerous nation of Europe, and the one that is surest to inspire admiration, hatred, terror, or pity, but never indifference.

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

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

You are the eternal France, I love you.

There is just one France... one single nation, united in the same destiny.

There is a certain dignity to being French.

What unites us is an unconditional love for France.

I am typically French.

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.

The French are consistent.

I owe everything to France.

Being a France is great from a heritage standpoint.

France, freed from that monster, Bonaparte, must again become the most agreeable country on earth. It would be the second choice of all whose ties of family and fortune give a preference to some other one, and the first choice of all not under those ties.

France will always be a great nation.

Oh, I'm not English, I cannot talk on behalf of an English person. I'm French. I can say about French. They are quite emotional, though, and they talk about their emotions.

France cannot be destroyed. She is an old country who, despite her misfortunes, has, and always will have, thanks to her past, a tremendous prestige in the world, whatever the fate inflicted upon her.

I love France. The French respect your privacy.

'The Discovery of France' by Graham Robb is teaching me lots about a country I've long loved but realise I didn't really know.

France, mother of arts, of warfare, and of laws.