Melissa

“A democracy becomes hopelessly weak, and the general good suffers accordingly, if its higher officials, bred up to despise it, and necessarily drawn from those very classes the dominance of which it is pledged to destroy, serve it only half-heartedly.”
― Marc Bloch, Strange Defeat

“The voice on the radio may speak our language, but it comes from the other side of the Rhine.”
― Marc Bloch, Strange Defeat

“Is it to be wondered that our military staffs organized their Intelligence Services so badly? Their members belonged to a social class in which the taste for self-education was suffering from creeping paralysis. They were the kind of men who could read Mein Kampf and still entertain doubts about the true intentions of Nazi policy.”
― Marc Bloch, Strange Defeat

“For there can be no salvation where there is not some sacrifice, and no national liberty in the fullest sense unless we have ourselves worked to bring it about.”
― Marc Bloch, Strange Defeat