Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.

You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.

Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.

Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.

Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.

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.

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.