"In order to become the master of the world, one must be the master of one's own country."

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

"The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it."

"I am not a man of the left, nor a man of the right. I am a man of France."

"The greatest victory is that which requires no battle."