 It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge. |
| The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs. |
| Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone. |
| One does not arrest Voltaire. |
| I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them. |
| How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese? |
| Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance. |
| No nation has friends only interests. |
| Old age is a shipwreck. |
| You'll live. Only the best get killed. |
| You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless. |
| Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. |
| I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French. |
| Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses; they last while they last. |
| Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life. |
| A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless. |
| I was France. Topics: Short |
| No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent. |
| In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate. |
| Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back. |
