I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money. (On Vietnam War)
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As an adolescent ... I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the interest of life consisted in one day rendering her some signal service and that I would have the occasion to do so.
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The perfection preached in the Gospels never yet built up an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be forgiven him, indeed, they will be regarded as high qualities, if he can make of them the means to achieve great ends.
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How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
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I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
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How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese
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In order to become the master the politician poses as the servant.
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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.
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How can anyone govern a nation that has 246 different kinds of cheese
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Deliberation is the function of many, action is the function of one.
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How can one conceive of a one party system in a country that has over 200 varieties of cheese.
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It will not be any European statesman who will unite Europe Europe will be united by the Chinese.
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How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over 200 varieties of cheeses
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Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness of a road leading towards the unknown.
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How do you govern a country which has 246 different kinds of cheese?
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Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
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The sword is the axis of the world, and grandeur is indivisible.
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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.
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You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.
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The national task that had been incumbent upon me for 18 years is hereby confirmed.
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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
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In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country of the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
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I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Mtro.
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The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
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The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
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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.
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My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
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I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
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In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
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A man of Character finds an attractiveness in difficult, since it is through coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potenialities.
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