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.

Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.

Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.

France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.

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

Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.