Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.
In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
You'll live. Only the best get killed.
I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Old age is a shipwreck.
Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
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.
In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.
I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.
Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
The sword is the axis of the world and its power is absolute.