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.

The graveyards 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)

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

What do you take me for, an idiot?

For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.

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