Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.

It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.

I always thought I was Jeanne d'Arc and Bonaparte. How little one knows oneself.

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.

A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities.

Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.

The Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering.