Famous quotes containing the words france and/or ruled:
“It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“The sort of morality which the priests inculcate is a very subtle policy, far finer than the politicians’, and the world is very successfully ruled by them as the policemen.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)