I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

• Old age is a shipwreck.
• Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
• You'll live. Only the best get killed.
• It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.
• 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 the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?
• You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.
• The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.
• Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
• Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.