I defy anyone – and I have said this to the Germans – to build a solid, articulated, and viable Europe without France’s consent. Pierre Laval Read Quote
Workers of France, it is for the freedom of the prisoners that you will go to work in Germany! It is for our country that you will go in large numbers! Pierre Laval Read Quote
It is in order that France may find her place in the new Europe that you will respond to my appeal. Pierre Laval Read Quote
It is neither the statesman nor the friend who is asking your help and assistance, but simply the man. Pierre Laval Read Quote
France cannot be destroyed. She is an old country who, despite her misfortunes, has, and always will have, thanks to her past, a tremendous prestige in the world, whatever the fate inflicted upon her. Pierre Laval Read Quote
I am a peasant from the Auvergne. I want to keep my farm, and I want to keep France. Nothing else matters now. Pierre Laval Read Quote
We have given most of Europe to Hitler. Let us try to hold on to what we have got left. Pierre Laval Read Quote
In the event of a victory over Germany by Soviet Russia and England, Bolshevism in Europe would inevitably follow. Under these circumstances I would prefer to see Germany win the war. Pierre Laval Read Quote