He who laughs last didn't get the joke..

They really are bad shots..

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant..

How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?.

I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money." (On Vietnam War).

I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them..

I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny..

Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak..

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless..

One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death..

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent..

In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted Hist….

Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential..

In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly..

One does not arrest Voltaire..

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

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..

Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to it….

I myself have become a Gaullist only little by little..

I'm not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary..