Always choose the most difficult way, there you will not meet competitors.
How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war
Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
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.
Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Deliberation is the work of many men. Action of one alone.
How can you be expected to govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese?
Faced with crisis the man of character falls back on himself.
Before such a prodigious career judgement is torn between blame and admiration.
How can you govern a country with two hundred and forty-six varieties of cheese?
I respect only those who resist me but cannot tolerate them.
A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.
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 them the means to achieve great ends.
Since a politician never believes what he says he is surprised when others believe him.
In politics it is necessary either to betray one’s country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
It will not be any European statesman who will unite Europe: Europe will be united by the Chinese.
In order to become the master the politician poses as the servant.
The better I get to know men the more I find myself loving dogs.
It so happens that the world is undergoing a transformation to which no change that has yet occurred can be compared either in scope or in rapidity.
I respect only those who resist me but cannot tolerate them.
I respect only those who resist me but cannot tolerate them.
I respect only those who resist me but cannot tolerate them.
I respect only those who resist me but cannot tolerate them.
I respect only those who resist me but cannot tolerate them.
I respect only those who resist me but cannot tolerate them.
I respect only those who resist me but cannot tolerate them.
I respect only those who resist me but cannot tolerate them.
Faced with crisis the man of character falls back on himself.
Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
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.
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.
The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.
You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.
Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
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.
How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.