Famous quotes containing the words gaulle, prime, minister and/or france:
“One does not arrest Voltaire.”
—Charles De Gaulle (1890–1970)
“If one had to worry about one’s actions in respect of other people’s ideas, one might as well be buried alive in an antheap or married to an ambitious violinist. Whether that man is the prime minister, modifying his opinions to catch votes, or a bourgeois in terror lest some harmless act should be misunderstood and outrage some petty convention, that man is an inferior man and I do not want to have anything to do with him any more than I want to eat canned salmon.”
—Aleister Crowley (1875–1947)
“Just let him be minister if that’s what he desires, but without his brother and his brother-in-law.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)
“It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)