Country Quote by Vladimir Lenin

The "terror" of the French Revolution lasted for ten years. The terror that preceded and led to it lasted for a thousand years.

— Edward Abbey

It is with enormous distress that France has just learned of the monstrous attacks there is no other word for it that have just…

— Jacques Chirac

Faced with terror, France must be strong, it must be great, and the state authorities must be firm.

— Francois Hollande

France, like other countries, is facing a terror threat that is unprecedented in its nature and magnitude, ... Terrorists are targeting France to divide us.

— Manuel Valls

A revolution cannot progress without the fuel of terror. With time that relationship inverts: the revolution presses forward for the sake of terror. Like…

— Young-Ha Kim

We, the French, are viscerally attached to our laicite, our sovereignty, our independence, our values. The world knows that when France is attacked, it…

— Marine Le Pen

The reign of terror to which France submitted has been more justly termed "the reign of cowardice." One knows not which most to execrate,--the…

— Charles Caleb Colton

“We shall convince France and the world, that we are not a degraded people, humiliated under a colonial spirit of fear and a sense…

— John Adams

“If these self-anointed leaders did not keep the people aroused with calls to preserve the Revolution, or to defend it from one imaginary foe…

— Robert Masello

The nineteenth and twentieth centuries have given us as much terror as we can take. We have paid a high enough price for the…

— Jean-Francois Lyotard

France will be on the front line in the fight against terrorism.

— Emmanuel Macron

France is deeply upset to learn of the monstrous attacks that have just struck the United States… In these terrible circumstances, all French people…

— Jacques Chirac