China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese.

One does not arrest Voltaire.

I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money." (On Vietnam War)

You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.

Soyons fermes, purs et fidèles ; au bout de nos peines, il y a la plus grande gloire du monde, celle des hommes qui n'ont pas cédé. [Let us be firm, pure and faithful; at the end of our sorrow, there is the greatest glory of the world, that of the men who did not give in.]

Leaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors.

In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.