No, I'm not talking about the Russians; I mean the Germans. In spite of everything, to have pushed so far!

War stirs in men's hearts the mud of their worst instincts. It puts a premium on violence, nourishes hatred, and gives free rein to cupidity. It crushes the weak, exalts the unworthy, and bolsters tyranny .. .Time and time again it has destroyed all ordered living, devastated hope, and put the prophets to death.

History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.

You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.

Don't think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.

I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money." (On Vietnam War)

Old France, weighed down with history, prostrated by wars and revolutions, endlessly vacillating from greatness to decline, but revived, century after century, by the genius of renewal!