Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.
Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents
It will not be any European statesman who will unite Europe: Europe will be united by the Chinese.
Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
Nothing more enhances authority than silence. It is the crowning virtue of the strong, the refuge of the weak, the modesty of the proud, the pride of the humble, the prudence of the wise, and the sense of fools. To speak is to . . . dissipate one's strength; whereas what action demands is concentration. Silence is a necessary preliminary to the ordering of one's thoughts.
The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.
Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.
We may go to the moon, but that' s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.
In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.
Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.
France has no friends, only interests.
I wouldn't mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities.
One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death.
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