In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
Old age is a shipwreck.
No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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.
You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
It's impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.