Born French Citizen

Famous quotes containing the words born, french and/or citizen:

“It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)

“Just as the French of the nineteenth century invested their surplus capital in a railway-system in the belief that they would make money by it in this life, in the thirteenth they trusted their money to the Queen of Heaven because of their belief in her power to repay it with interest in the life to come.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)

“Where the citizen uses a mere sliver or board, the pioneer uses the whole trunk of a tree.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)