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Philippe Pétain
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“Neither Germany nor Italy have doubts. Our crisis is not a material crisis. We have lost faith in our destiny...We are like mariners without a pilot.”
Philippe Pétain (1856–1951) first seen 1914 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Statement (April 1936), quoted in Anthony Adamthwaite, Grandeur and Misery: France's Bid for Power in Europe 1914–1940 (1995), p. 182
“My country has been beaten and they are calling me back to make peace and sign an armistice...This is the work of 30 years of Marxism. They're calling me back to take charge of the nation.”
Philippe Pétain (1856–1951) first seen 1940 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Remarks to Francisco Franco in Madrid, Spain, after the French Prime Minister, Paul Reynaud, recalled Pétain to France to raise morale against the German offensive during the Battle of France (c. 17 May 1940), quoted in…
“La terre, elle, ne ment pas [The land, it does not lie].”
Philippe Pétain (1856–1951) first seen 1940 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech (25 June 1940), quoted in Philippe Pétain, Discours aux Français, 17 juin 1940–20 août 1944 (1989), p. 66
“The only wealth you possess is your labour... France will become again what she should never have ceased to be—an essentially agricultural nation. Like the giant of mythology, she will recover all her strength by contact with the soil.”
Philippe Pétain (1856–1951) first seen 1940 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech (August 1940), quoted in Pavlos Giannelia, 'France Returns to the Soil', Land and Freedom, Vol. XLI, No. 1 (January-February 1941), p. 23 and Eugen Weber, 'France', in Hans Rogger and Eugen Weber (eds.), The Euro…