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

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

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

Betting against gold is the same as betting on governments. He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history.

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.

Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that's the way he shows his passion for equality

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 its time.