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)
“In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man’s virtues the means of deceiving him.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)