It Will Not Be Any European Statesman

The Leader Must Aim High, See Big, Judge Widely, Thus Setting Himself Apart Form The Ordinary People Who Debate In Narrow Confines.

Diplomats Are Useful Only In Fair Weather. As Soon As It Rains They Drown In Every Drop.

Old France, Weighed Down With History, Prostrated By Wars And Revolutions, Endlessly Vacillating From Greatness To Decline, But Revived, Century After Century, By The Genius Of Renewal!

I Have Against Me The Bourgeois, The Military And The Diplomats, And For Me, Only The People Who Take The Métro.

Deliberation Is A Function Of The Many; Action Is The Function Of One.