China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese.

Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.

When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.

No nation has friends only interests.

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

The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.

Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.

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.

At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.

For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.

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.

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.

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

Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.

In the tumult of great events, solitude was what I hoped for. Now it is what I love. How is it possible to be contented with anything else when one has come face to face with 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.

They really are bad shots.

I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Métro.

You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.