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The nation... doesn't simply need what we have. It needs what we are.

If we want a great nation, we have to change it ourselves.

A nation has its first obligation to its own workers and its own poor.

A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.

The national will is the supreme law of the Republic, and on all subjects within the limits of his constitutional powers should be faithfully obeyed by the public servant.

Nonetheless, we continue to be obsessed with finding or inventing a European nation which, as in the nation state, guarantees homogeneity and thus an appropriate form of democracy and centralized government.

We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.

A government of, for and by the people, requires much from the people.

We must create a state that responds to the citizens' needs, and we need citizens who feel committed to their state because that state serves the citizens.

We make our own future; we govern ourselves, and to govern is to choose.