A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

Generals cannot be trusted with anything, not even with war.

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action. It is as if a tennis player before returning a ball stopped to think about his views of the physical and mental advantages of tennis. You must act as you breathe.

What is said behind my back is said to my ass.

A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne.

Not to be a socialist at twenty is proof of want of heart to be one at thirty is proof of want of head.

Il est plus facile de faire la guerre que la paix. It is far easier to make war than to make peace.

Liberty is the right to discipline ourselves in order not to be disciplined by others

Americans have no capacity for abstract thought, and make bad coffee.

In order to act, you must be somewhat insane .A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Monet's garden must be included with his works, because he combined the magic of an adaptation of nature with the work of a painter of light. An extension of the studio into the openair, with color tones lavishly spread out on all sides to exercise the eye with seductive vibrations, from which a feverishly aroused retina expects unquenchable joy.

My home policy: I wage war my foreign policy: I wage war. All the time I wage war.

Oh, to be seventy again!

I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace is an interlude during war.

The Germans may take Paris, but that will not prevent me from going on with the war. We will fight on the Loire, we will fight on the Garronne, we will fight even in the Pyrenees. And if at last we are driven off the Pyrenees, we will continue the war at sea.

A man who has to be convinced to act before he acts is not a man of action. You must act as you breathe.

This time it will be a long one.

All that I know I learned after I was thirty.