“I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.”

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.

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.

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.

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

I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.

The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.

Old age is a shipwreck.

I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.

The Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering.

I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.

Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.

It so happens that the world is undergoing a transformation to which no change that has yet occurred can be compared, either in scope or in rapidity.

Hearing Mass is the ceremony I most favor during my travels. Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.

Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.

It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.

When it’s impossible, it’s better to stoop to compromise, without resisting and without complaining. People who complain are selfish.

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

What we need in appointive positions is men of knowledge and experience who have sufficient character to resist temptations.

Pain is the price you pay for resisting life.

The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.

Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists the mind.

I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.