Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance.

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.

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.

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

One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death.

It's impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.