What do you take me for, an idiot?

France has no friends, only interests.

Today we are crushed by the sheer weight of the mechanized forces hurled against us, but we can still look to the future in which even greater mechanized forces will bring us victory. Therein lies the destiny of the world.

Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents

To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.

The Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering.

It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.