How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty six different kinds of cheese?

Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses: they last while they last.

Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.

Glory is only given to those who have always dreamed of it.

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

Politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

We are not here to laugh.

I was France.

No nation has friends only interests.

You’ll live. Only the best get killed.