“There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed.”
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Book XXXIX, sec. 16
History of Rome
“Nothing is more false than the axiom that governments are belligerent and peoples are pacific.”
Action Française (3 July 1913), quoted in William R. Keylor, Jacques Bainville and the Renaissance of Royalist History in Twentieth-Century France (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1979), p. 65.
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