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

Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.

In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.

I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.

I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money." (On Vietnam War)