I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
You'll live. Only the best get killed.
Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.
Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.
The sword is the axis of the world and its power is absolute.
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.
Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
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.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Old age is a shipwreck.