Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.

Old France, weighed down with history, prostrated by wars and revolutions, endlessly vacillating from greatness to decline, but revived, century after century, by the genius of renewal!

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

Don't think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.

He who laughs last didn't get the joke.

How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?

France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.