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[highlight-text]Forty million Frenchmen can't be wrong.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]France always has plenty men of talent but it is always deficient in men of action and high character.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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[highlight-text]Ye sons of France awake to glory! Hark! Hark! what myriads bid you rise! Your children wives and grandsires hoary Behold their tears and hear their cries!
Rouget de Lisle
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[highlight-text]France freed from that monster Bonaparte must again become the most agreeable country on earth. It would be the second choice of all whose ties of family and fortune give a preference to some other one and the first choice of all not under those ties.
Thomas Jefferson