Aristide Briand
Aristide Briand
Aristide Briandwas a French statesman who served eleven terms as Prime Minister of France during the French Third Republic and was a co-laureate of the 1926 Nobel Peace Prize...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionStatesman
Date of Birth28 March 1862
CountryFrance
peace writing gun
The pens which write against disarmament are made with the same steel from which guns are made.
heart men twenties
The man who is not a socialist at twenty has no heart, but if he is still a socialist at forty he has no head.
europe league groups
The European organisation contemplated could not oppose any ethnic group, on other continents or in Europe itself, outside of the League of Nations, any more than it could oppose the League of Nations.
views political links
But I am sure also that from a political point of view, and from a social point of view the federal link, without infringing the sovereignty of any of the nations which might take part in such as association, could be beneficial.
thinking people half
People think too historically. They are always living half in a cemetery.
country justice battle
A country grows in history not only because of the heroism of its troops on the field of battle, it grows also when it turns to justice and to right for the conservation of its interests.
learning forget
Live to learn . . . forget . . . and learn again.
europe together wish
Among peoples who are geographically grouped together like the peoples of Europe there must exist a sort of federal link. It is this link which I wish to endeavour to establish.
mean league connections
This means that the search for a formula of European cooperation in connection with the League of Nations, far from weakening the authority of this latter must and can only tend to strengthen it, for it is closely connected with its aims.