It will not be any European statesman who will unite Europe: Europe will be united by the Chinese. |
My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial. |
Never relinquish the initiative. |
No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent. |
No nation has friends only interests |
No nation has friends only interests |
Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so. |
Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so. |
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence. |
Now I shall return to my village and there will remain at the disposition of the nation. |
Old age is a shipwreck. |
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. |
One cannot govern with 'buts'. |
Only peril can bring the French together. One can't impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese. |
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first. |