The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

Leaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors.

Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that's the way he shows his passion for equality

Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself

What do you take me for, an idiot?

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!

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.