You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.
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?
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.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
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.
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.
Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
Never relinquish the initiative.
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.
Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.
Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.
Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
France has no friends, only interests.
I wouldn't mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
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.]
War stirs in men's hearts the mud of their worst instincts. It puts a premium on violence, nourishes hatred, and gives free rein to cupidity. It crushes the weak, exalts the unworthy, and bolsters tyranny .. .Time and time again it has destroyed all ordered living, devastated hope, and put the prophets to death.
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