"On this day, seventy-eight years ago, our fathers founded the Republic, and—while the foreign invader was profaning t…"

"I found myself unable to tolerate such a lowering of republican France before Europe and I intervened. In a few minut…"

"Gambetta was autoritaire; I do not feel as if he were a true liberal in the old and best sense. I cannot forget how h…"

"Gambetta (since you ask my opinion of the aforementioned gentleman) struck me, at first glance, as grotesque, then re…"

"W. E. G. speaking of Gambetta said he belonged to that class of Liberals whose creed had nothing whatever to do with …"

"Those who imagine that it is the duty, or that it lies within the power, of the Government to secure the happiness of…"

"Paris, the cradle of our civilisation, the buckler of our public liberties, the teacher and guide of the national gen…"

"France is bound under the pain of humiliation and perhaps of social death to complete the French Revolution. It is th…"

"I am sorry to see that our Republican traditions are being weakened and effaced by the influence of humanitarian doct…"

"At this moment I have only one preoccupation: after our fruitless efforts to drive out the foreigner to try to save a…"