I myself have become a Gaullist only little by little.
I always thought I was Jeanne d'Arc and Bonaparte. How little one knows oneself.
There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.
Hearing Mass is the ceremony I most favor during my travels. Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.
My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?
What do you take me for, an idiot?
For all of us Frenchmen, the guiding rule of our epoch is to be faithful to France.
A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.
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.
Whatever happens, the flame of the French resistance must not be extinguished and will not be extinguished. Tomorrow, as today, I will speak on Radio London.
I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
One cannot govern with 'buts'.
The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
It's impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
Old age is a shipwreck.
I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
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