Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.

I'm not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.

I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.

Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents

Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.

One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death.

I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.