Authority Doesn't Work Without Prestige, Or Prestige

No Country Without An Atom Bomb Could Properly Consider Itself Independent.

As An Adolescent I Was Convinced That France Would Have To Go Through Gigantic Trials, That The Interest Of Life Consisted In One Day Rendering Her Some Signal Service And That I Would Have The Occasion To Do So.

These People Really Aim Very Badly.

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.

How Can Anyone Govern A Nation That Has Two Hundred And Forty-six Different Kinds Of Cheese?