[ Remark during Paris Peace Conference, 1919, about Woodrow Wilson’s “Fourteen Points” :] The Good Lord had only ten.

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 Garonne, we will fight even on the Pyrenees. And if at last we are driven off the Pyrenees, we will continue the war at sea.

[ Upon being told that his son had joined the Communist Party :] My son is 22 years old. If he had not become a Communist at 22, I would have disowned him. If he is still a Communist at 30, I will do it then.

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

There is no passion like that of a functionary for his function.

War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.

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

Middle Age: When you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms

This time it will be a long one.

Democracy is the art of disciplining oneself so that one need not be disciplined by others.