Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French..

The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs..

Why do you think that at 67 I would start a career as a dictator?.

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians..

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..

One can unite the French only under the threat of danger. One cannot simply bring together a nation that produces 265 kinds of cheese..

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own..

I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Métro..

A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentia….

China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese..

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first..

I cannot prevent the French from being French.

It so happens that the world is undergoing a transformation to which no change that has yet occurred can be compared, either in scope or in rapidity..

I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously..

There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt..

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 h….

The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines..

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself..

At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure..

Don't think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men..

France was built with swords. The fleur-de-lis, symbol of national unity, is only the image of a spear with three pikes..