Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.

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.

The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.

Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance.

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

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

What do you take me for, an idiot?