“I am a man who belongs to nobody and who belongs to everybody.”

“I am too poor to bow.”

“One must speak little. In action one must say nothing. The chief is the one who does not speak.”

“When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.”

“Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.”

“Soyons fermes, purs et fidèles ; au bout de nos peines, il y a la plus grande gloire du monde, celle des hommes qui n'ont pas cédé. [Let us be firm, pure and faithful; at the end of our sorrow, there is the greatest glory of the world, that of the men who did not give in.]”

“Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.”