How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
Treaties you see are like girls and roses; they last while they last.
I cannot prevent the French from being French.
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.
Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents.
France has no friends, only interests.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.
The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.
In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.