Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.

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

You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.

One does not arrest Voltaire.

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

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.

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.