Léon Blum

“The great hope of society is individual character.”

“No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.”

“To be a socialist is to have a vision of society where the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.”

“The duty of the government is to tell the truth to the people.”

“Work is the law of the modern world, which has no place for lazy people.”

“For a man to be great, he must be able to hold on to his childhood, his freshness of feeling, his spontaneity.”

“We must build a new world, a world of peace and social justice.”

“The Popular Front is not a party or a coalition of parties. It is a mass movement.”

“We are loyal to our country, but we are not nationalists.”

“Man must be an end, not a means.”

“It is better to be defeated on principles than to win on lies.”