If I do not yet see the light of day it is because the scaffolding of London still blocks my view of the rising sun. And what worries me the most is that this scaffolding rests upon quicksand: the good faith of Germany, the good faith, not only of the present government in Berlin, but of all those governments that will follow it.


Speech in the Chamber (26 August 1924), quoted in Stephen A. Schuker, The End of French Predominance in Europe: The Financial Crisis of 1924 and the Adoption of the Dawes Plan (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1976), p. 393.

Raymond Poincaré Quotes

If I do not yet see the light of day it is because the scaffolding of London still blocks my view of the rising sun. And what worries me the most is...

If I do not yet see the light of day it is because the scaffolding of London still blocks my view of the rising sun. And what worries me the most is...

If I do not yet see the light of day it is because the scaffolding of London still blocks my view of the rising sun. And what worries me the most is...

If I do not yet see the light of day it is because the scaffolding of London still blocks my view of the rising sun. And what worries me the most is...