Never relinquish the initiative.

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.

Leaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors.

I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Métro.

France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.

These people really aim very badly.

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.