Victor Hugo Quotes About Country

Quotes about: Country

• There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.

  Victor Hugo

  Life, Country, Greatness

• My revenge is fraternity! No more frontiers! The Rhine for everyone! Let us be the same Republic, let us be the United States of Europe, let us be the continental federation, let us be European liberty, let us be universal peace!

  Victor Hugo

  Country, Revenge, Europe

• The man who fights against his own country is never a hero.

  Victor Hugo

  Country, Hero, Fighting

  Victor Hugo, Frank Lee Benedict (1874). “Ninety-three”, p.54, Dawson Bros.

• A day will come when all nations on our continent will form a European brotherhood... A day will come when we shall see... the United States of America and the United States of Europe face to face, reaching out for each other across the seas.

  Victor Hugo

  Country, Europe, Sea

• And, moreover, when it happens that both are sincere and good, nothing will mix and amalgamate more easily than an old priest and an old soldier. In reality, they are the same kind of man. One has devoted himself to country upon earth, the other to his country in heaven; there is no other difference.

  Victor Hugo

  Country, Reality, Men

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.415, Wordsworth Editions

• In the Twentieth Century war will be dead, the scaffold will be dead, hatred will be dead, frontier boundaries will be dead, dogmas will be dead; man will live. He will possess something higher than all these-a great country, the whole earth, and a great hope, the whole heaven.

  Victor Hugo

  Country, War, Men

• Let the one fight for his flag, and the other for his ideal, and let them both imagine that they are fighting for the country; the strife will be colossal.

  Victor Hugo

  Country, Fighting, Flags

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.1077, Modern Library

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