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

Soyons fermes, purs et fidèles ; au bout de nos peines, il y a la plus grande gloire du monde, celle des hommes qui n'ont pas cédé. [Let us be firm, pure and faithful; at the end of our sorrow, there is the greatest glory of the world, that of the men who did not give in.]

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.

Only peril can bring the French together. One can't impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.

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

It is better to have a bad method than to have none.

You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.