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Prince Metternich, I think, who said he was so tired of the word fraternite that if he had a brother he would call him “cousin.”
My First Years As A Frenchwoman, 1876-1879 Waddington, Mary King 1914
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'fraternite', and we have various ways of showing it.
As We Were Saying Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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'fraternite', and we have various ways of showing it.
Complete Essays Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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'fraternite', and we have various ways of showing it.
The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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It is still fun, though, and listening to the French prime minister wax poetic about “liberte, egalite, fraternite” is inspiring.
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It's madness that we are allowing mainstream media to lead the way in absorbing and coopting the principal elements of Jihadi propaganda and shoving them down our throats constantly - the only result of which is not the vaguest hint of the furthering of the purported ideals of, say, human rights, egalite and fraternite or the rights of the downtrodden masses.
Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010
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But in 1791, the slaves of Haiti took to heart the cry of liberte, egalite, fraternite, from their masters over the water and started their own revolution.
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Guess we Americans are too focused on liberte, egalite, fraternite.
Carleton Bryant: French angry over McDonald's at Louvre 2009
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In these times, we must return to the idea of fraternity -- as in the French slogan "liberte, egalite, fraternite" -- as a force for moderating the danger inherent within freedom.
Yukio Hatoyama: Japan Must Shake Off U.S.-Style Globalization 2009
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Looks like commerce trumps the promise of global fraternite.
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