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

You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.

France cannot be France without greatness.

Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.

You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.

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

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