Today we are crushed by the sheer weight of the mechanized forces hurled against us, but we can still look to the future in which even greater mechanized forces will bring us victory. Therein lies the destiny of the world.

When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.

He who laughs last didn't get the joke.

How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?

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

There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.

I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Métro.