“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.”

Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.

I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.

The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.

I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.

Old age is a shipwreck.

I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.

The Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering.

I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.

Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.

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.

Hearing Mass is the ceremony I most favor during my travels. Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.

Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.

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.

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.

In politics it is necessary either to betray one’s country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.

You Can Think About Past or Future, But Only This Moment Can Be Experienced.

While plunging into her past hole bind yourself with hope, not rope.

We cannot fix yesterday, but we can create tomorrow.

You remember the past not so that it is “accurately recorded,” to say it again, but so that you are prepared for the future.

Live the present intensely and fully, do not let the past be a burden, and let the future be an incentive. Each person forges his or her own destiny.

Look out for tomorrow she will not delay, step into her don’t look back on yesterday.

Memory is not your enemy. The real enemy is your desires, chasing your past lamenting over and over.

With a good perspective of history, we can have a better understanding of the past and present, and thus a clear vision of the future.