A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself..

My home policy: I wage war; my foreign policy: I wage war. All the time I wage war..

America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization..

Americans have no capacity for abstract thought, and make bad coffee..

In order to act, you must be somewhat insane .A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking..

Oh, to be seventy again!.

Liberty is the right to discipline ourselves in order not to be disciplined by others.

There are only two perfectly useless things in this world. One is an appendix and the other is Poincaré..

I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace is an interlude during war..

What is said behind my back is said to my ass..

War is a series of disasters which result in a winner..

Generals cannot be trusted with anything, not even with war..

A man who has to be convinced to act before he acts is not a man of action. You must act as you breathe..

What can a mere French minister do when associated with Lloyd George, who thinks he is Napoleon, and Woodrow Wilson, who thinks he is Jesus Christ?.

All the great pleasures of life are silent..

If you don't vote Socialist/Communist before you are twenty, you have no heart - if you do vote Socialist/Communist after you are twenty, you have no….

The best time of love, is when one goes up the stairs..

On September 17, 1914, Erzberger, the well-known German statesman, an eminent member of the Catholic Party, wrote to the Minister of War, General von….

Not to be a socialist at twenty is proof of want of heart; to be one at thirty is proof of want of head..

The Germans may take Paris, but that will not prevent me from going on with the war. We will fight on the Loire, we will fight on the Garronne, we wi….

A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne..