I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.

Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.

It's impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

Whereas ordinary officers must be content with behaving correctly in front of their men, the great leaders have always carefully stage-managed their effects.

One can unite the French only under the threat of danger. One cannot simply bring together a nation that produces 265 kinds of cheese.

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.