How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?

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

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

Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.

Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.

In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?

Old France, weighed down with history, prostrated by wars and revolutions, endlessly vacillating from greatness to decline, but revived, century after century, by the genius of renewal!