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| A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends. | | Uncategorized | |
| 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 | | Potential | |
| A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless. | | Leadership | |
| All my life I have thought of France in a certain way. | | Uncategorized | |
| Art thou poor, yet hast thou golden slumbers? / O sweet content! / Art thou rich, yet is thy mind perplexed? / O punishment! | | Uncategorized | |
| 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. | | Teenage | |
| Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance. | | Uncategorized | |
| Brave shoemakers, all gentlemen of the gentle craft. | | Uncategorized | |
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| Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone. | | Uncategorized | |
| Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop. | | Diplomacy | |
| 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. | | Uncategorized | |
| Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that's the way he shows his passion for equality | | Equality | |
| Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends. | | Action | |
| Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own. | | Uncategorized | |
| Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself. | | Uncategorized | |
| For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her. | | Dreams | |
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| France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war! (Proclamation, 18 June 1940) | | Uncategorized | |
| France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war. | | Uncategorized | |
