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!

Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.

Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.

In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?

He who laughs last didn't get the joke.

History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.

The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.