I should be pleased, I suppose, that Hitler has carried out a revolution on our lines. But they are Germans. So they will end by ruining our idea.

War is to man what motherhood is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.

People are tired of liberty. They have had a surfeit of it. Liberty is no longer a chaste and austere virgin.... Today's youth are moved by other slogans...Order, Hierarchy, Discipline.

The function of a citizen and a soldier are inseparable.

Fascism is a religious concept.

Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.

It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.