A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
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.
At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.
Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
Character is the virtue of hard times.
Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that's the way he shows his passion for equality.
For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
France has no friends, only interests.
Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
I cannot prevent the French from being French.
I don't have time to distinguish between the unfortunate and the incompetent.
I have against me the bourgeois, the military, and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Métro.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to politicians.
I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
I respect those who resist me; but I cannot tolerate them.
In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
It is better to have a bad method than to have none.
Justice which does not bear a sword beside its scales soon falls into ridicule.
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.
Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
Nothing great is done without great men, and they are great because they wanted it.
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
Old age is a shipwreck.
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
People get the history they deserve.
Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
Since a politician never believes what he says, he is always astonished when others do.
The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.
The sword is the axis of the world and its power is absolute.
The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.
You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.
You'll live. Only the best get killed.
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