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

You'll live. Only the best get killed.

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

Soyons fermes, purs et fidèles ; au bout de nos peines, il y a la plus grande gloire du monde, celle des hommes qui n'ont pas cédé. [Let us be firm, pure and faithful; at the end of our sorrow, there is the greatest glory of the world, that of the men who did not give in.]

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

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

I cannot prevent the French from being French