Born French Citizen

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

    “A nation grown free in a single day is a child born with the limbs and the vigour of a man, who would take a drawn sword for his rattle, and set the house in a blaze that he might chuckle over the splendour.”
    —Sydney Smith (1771–1845)

    “The French are a logical people, which is one reason the English dislike them so intensely. The other is that they own France, a country which we have always judged to be much too good for them.”
    —Robert Morley (b. 1908)

    “The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute.”
    —J. William Fulbright (1905–1995)