Famous quotes containing the words politics, france and/or republic:
“Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.”
—G.M. (George Macaulay)
“It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“It was the most ungrateful and unjust act ever perpetrated by a republic upon a class of citizens who had worked and sacrificed and suffered as did the women of this nation in the struggle of the Civil War only to be rewarded at its close by such unspeakable degradation as to be reduced to the plane of subjects to enfranchised slaves.”
—Anna Howard Shaw (1847–1919)