Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money." (On Vietnam War)
Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents
It's impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
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.