EDOUARD HERRIOT

The spectacle which confronts all Europe today is a great conflict between democracy and dictatorship.

A due regard for individual property rights does not preclude assigning the state its share in national resources.

Since the thirteenth century at least,--that is, since the Magna Carta,--England has been the bulwark of modern law.

The League of Nations seemed to us the embryo of a future international organization; and for the struggle against the internationales, whether Socialistic or Communist, it offered the best possible instrument. It was a great blow to us when the United States refused to become a party to these hopes.

Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.

In a country like ours, burdened with a history of several centuries of religious wars, the struggle for freedom of liberal thought has often been bitter.

To inject morality into politics, is, I have said, and I repeat, the watchword of all our efforts.

Nothing can excuse the cruelties of Communist Russia, though in the East torture does not provoke revolt as it would in the West.

An industrial state which was itself a producer would not find itself obliged to demand so much in taxes.

If Signor Mussolini should lay claim to the domination of the Mediterranean, he would find us ready to combat such childishness.

Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.

… the best way to aid the human being to emancipate himself is to educate him

An industrial state which was itself a producer would not find itself obliged to demand so much in taxes.

If Signor Mussolini should lay claim to the domination of the Mediterranean, he would find us ready to combat such childishness.

One must not forget, however, that Russia had to free herself from the most frightful mis-government ever inflicted upon a long-suffering people.

Individualists, since we recognize private property, we have conceived a social organization entirely different from that of the theoretical socialist. We do not think it is possible to achieve a permanent equality between men, and we say so bluntly. We do not wish to level everyone off, and especially to level them downwards. Social life is not static; it is dynamic. The human being should be regarded as a creator. At the very least, the humblest should be guarded against the inevitable accidents of life--whence the necessity for social insurance.

A due regard for individual property rights does not preclude assigning the state its share in national resources.

In a country like ours, burdened with a history of several centuries of religious wars, the struggle for freedom of liberal thought has often been bitter.

The League of Nations seemed to us the embryo of a future international organization; and for the struggle against the internationales, whether Socialistic or Communist, it offered the best possible instrument. It was a great blow to us when the United States refused to become a party to these hopes.

Nothing can excuse the cruelties of Communist Russia, though in the East torture does not provoke revolt as it would in the West.

The spectacle which confronts all Europe today is a great conflict between democracy and dictatorship.

Since the thirteenth century at least,--that is, since the Magna Carta,--England has been the bulwark of modern law.

To inject morality into politics, is, I have said, and I repeat, the watchword of all our efforts.