"I am too old to be a democrat."

"I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Metro."

"The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things."

"The graveyards are full of indispensable men."

"The prestige of France derives from the courage of its soldiers."