The cemetery is filled with indispensable men.
Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself
I wouldn't mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
France has no friends, only interests.
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.]
Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.