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?

Leaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors.

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

One can unite the French only under the threat of danger. One cannot simply bring together a nation that produces 265 kinds of cheese.

Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.

Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.

We may go to the moon, but that' s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.