It's impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?
No, I'm not talking about the Russians; I mean the Germans. In spite of everything, to have pushed so far!
France cannot be France without greatness.
A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.