“The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.”

— Leon Blum · Courage quote

“The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.”

— LEON BLUM

French statesman · 1872 – 1950

Léon Blum was a French socialist politician who led the Popular Front government as prime minister in 1936-37 and served again briefly in 1938 and 1946-47. A literary critic as well as a statesman, he survived imprisonment under the Vichy regime and deportation by the Nazis.

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