"Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first."

"In order to build something new, you must first destroy the old."

"I am a man of action, not a man of words."

"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."

"The French are a nation of individualists."