Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.

You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.

These people really aim very badly.

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

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!

The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.