The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.

I always thought I was Jeanne d'Arc and Bonaparte. How little one knows oneself.

A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.

For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.

France cannot be France without greatness.

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.

I'm not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.