I always thought I was Jeanne d'Arc and Bonaparte. How little one knows oneself.

A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.

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.

Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.

I wouldn't mind dying for France, but not for Air France.

I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.

Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.