Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.

How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?

Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.

One does not arrest Voltaire.

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.

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!

Don't think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.