One can unite the French only under the threat of danger. One cannot simply bring together a nation that produces 265 kinds of cheese.

I'm not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.

Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.

What do you take me for, an idiot?

A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.

You'll live. Only the best get killed.

When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.