What Good Fortune For Those In Power

Paris Must Either Not Fall Into The Hands Of The Enemy Or The Enemy Must Find It Only A Wasteland.

What We Suffer From Today Is An Excess Of Education.

Even Today I Am Not Ashamed To Say That, Overpowered By Stormy Enthusiasm, I Fell Down On My Knees And Thanked Heaven From An Overflowing Heart For Granting Me The Good Fortune Of Being Permitted To Live At This Time.

The Demand That Defective People Be Prevented From Propagating Equally Defective Offspring Is A Demand Of The Clearest Reason And If Systematically Executed Represents The Most Humane Act Of Mankind.

I Have Never Liked France Or The French, And I Have Never Stopped Saying So. (15th February 1945)