I cannot prevent the French from being French

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

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.

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.

History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.

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.

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!