We may go to the moon, but that' s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.

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!

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.

Yes, it is Europe, from the Atlantic to the Urals, it is Europe, it is the whole of Europe, that will decide the fate of the world.

One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death.

Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.

Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.