One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death.

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!

Today we are crushed by the sheer weight of the mechanized forces hurled against us, but we can still look to the future in which even greater mechanized forces will bring us victory. Therein lies the destiny of the world.

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 potentialities.

I cannot prevent the French from being French

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.

Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.