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

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.

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.

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!

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