I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Hearing Mass is the ceremony I most favor during my travels. Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.

The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.

To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.

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

For all of us Frenchmen, the guiding rule of our epoch is to be faithful to France.

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.