Million French Francs

Famous quotes containing the words million and/or french:

“When will the world learn that a million men are of no importance compared with one man?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“But as some silly young men returning from France affect a broken English, to be thought perfect in the French language; so his Lordship, I think, to seem a perfect understander of the unintelligible language of the Schoolmen, pretends an ignorance of his mother-tongue. He talks here of command and counsel as if he were no Englishman, nor knew any difference between their significations.”
—Thomas Hobbes (1579–1688)