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.

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

When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.

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

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

One cannot govern with 'buts'.

I'm not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.