It's impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
I wouldn't mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
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.]
Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.