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

Only peril can bring the French together. One can't impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.

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.

When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.

As an adolescent I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the interest of life consisted in one day rendering her some signal service and that I would have the occasion to do so.