@kdfrawg My favorite French leader was Georges Clemenceau:

"America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization."

"If you don't vote Socialist/Communist before you are twenty, you have no heart - if you do vote Socialist/Communist after you are twenty, you have no head."

"A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne."