Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.
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?
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.
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.