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“We must recognise that we have a great treasure to guard; that the inheritance in our possession represents the prolonged achievement of the centuries; that there is not one of our simple uncounted rights today for which better men than we are have not died on the scaffold or the battlefield. We have not only a great treasure; we have a great cause. Are we taking every measure within our power to defend that cause?”
Provenance
- Source:
- Speech at Théâtre des Ambassadeurs, Paris, 24 September 1936, "Thank God For the French Army"
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.60
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- b429342773f98f12718a8248d128269fa86529cb37aed281e53a58051bbfd2ea
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