The Vichy government was under occupation and carried out the orders of the German occupier.

When you write a two thousand page history of the Second World War, the deportations and the concentration camps will take up five pages, and the gas chambers perhaps 20 lines.

The much greater crimes of the Soviet Gulags occurred over decades and cost millions of lives.

I have said, and I repeat, at the risk of appearing sacrilegious, that the gas chambers are a detail of the history of the Second World War.

There was no reason to label us as anti-Semitic.

An ancient dictum says that when Zeus wanted to destroy someone, he would first drive him mad.

I'm not saying that the gas chambers didn't exist. I couldn't see them myself.

There must be an authority, and we believe that the most qualified authority in a household is the man's.

There wasn't anti-Semitism in France.

The suffering caused by the terrorists is the real torture.

Marine Le Pen may want me dead, that's possible, but she must not count on my co-operation

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

The War, ' said a soldier proverb, 'will last a hundred years--five years of fighting and ninety-give of winding up the barbed wire.

True love is loving yourself thoroughly so that you can love another unconditionally.

The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.

It's a terrible thing to die young. Still, it saves a lot of time.

Another of our highly prized virtues is fidelity. We are immensely pleased with ourselves when we are faithful.

When the sappy boughs Attire themselves with blooms, sweet rudiments Of future harvest.

If and when you do decide to share your experience with your husband, it should be because you feel ready to do so, not for any other reason.

I shall assume that your silence gives consent.

I know you are, but you gotta push