What we have lacked is what people who have allowed themselves to be enslaved for too long always lack: faith in themselves and a proper hatred of the foreigner. Let us never speak of the foreigner, but let it be clear that we always think of him. Thus you will be on the road to revenge.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "What we have lacked is what people who have allowed themselves to be enslaved for too long always lack: faith in themselves and a proper hatred of the foreigner. Let us never speak of the foreigner, but let it be clear that we always think of him. Thus you will be on the road to revenge." in the context of "Speech in Saint-Quentin (16 November 1871), quoted in Herbert Tint, The Decline of French Patriotism 1870–1940 (1964), p. 20" to mean that wisdom is timeless.