In the tumult of great events, solitude was what I hoped for. Now it is what I love. How is it possible to be contented with anything else when one has come face to face with history?

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

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

History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.

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.

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself