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

What do you take me for, an idiot?

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.

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

Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.