It is not enough that France should be regarded as a country which enjoys the remains of a freedom acquired long ago. If she is still to count in the world--and if she does not intend to, she may as well perish--she must be seen by her own citizens and by all men as an ever-flowing source of liberty. There must not be a single genuine lover of freedom in the whole world who can have a valid reason for hating France.

Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings (ed. Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2015) - ISBN: 9781498239219