Habib Bourguiba Quotes

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While I am alive, not a hair on Jewish heads will be touched.

Habib Bourguiba

You are wrong. The state and its existence are essential before everything else. All this preoccupation with liberty is not serious.

Habib Bourguiba

On Gamal Abdel Nasser:

Not aware of the danger of Communism. Once the Iron Curtain drops, there is no escape.

Habib Bourguiba

On people who patronized the Zéro de Conduite (Zero for Conduct), nightclub:] Practice a shameful exhibitionism in morbid and degrading dances.

Habib Bourguiba

At the moment of a revolution there is no question of setting up a democracy like that in America. If they accuse me of dictatorship, I accept. I am creating a nation. Liberty must be suppressed until the end of the war in Algeria—until the nation becomes homogeneous.

Habib Bourguiba

I have promised the Tunisian people that the French army will go, If I fail, I will be swept away.

Habib Bourguiba