I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
The Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering.
Betting against gold is the same as betting on governments. He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history.
No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
In the tumult of great events, solitude was what I hoped for. Now it is what I love. How is it possible to be contented with anything else when one has come face to face with history?
When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
In politics it is necessary either to betray one’s country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
France cannot be France without greatness.
Only peril can bring the French together. One can’t impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.
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.
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.
It’s better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.
It will not be any European statesman who will unite Europe: Europe will be united by the Chinese.
Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.
Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
As an adolescent I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the interest of life consisted in one day rendering her some signal service and that I would have the occasion to do so.
Long live free Quebec!
At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.
Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.