[ Of Jean-Paul Sartre’s political agitation :] One does not arrest Voltaire.

[ Remark at funeral of his disabled daughter, 1948 :] Maintenant elle est comme les autres .

Comment voulez-vous gouverner un pays qui a deux cent quarante-six variétés de fromage?

Vive le Québec! Vive le Québec libre! Vive le Canada français! Vive la France!

[ Responding to being compared to Robespierre :]

All my life, I have had a certain idea of France.

France cannot be France without greatness.

Since they whose duty it was to wield the sword of France have let it fall shattered to the ground, I have taken up the broken blade.

Faced by the bewilderment of my countrymen, by the disintegration of a government in thrall to the enemy, by the fact that the institutions of my country are incapable, at the moment, of functioning, I General de Gaulle, a French soldier and military leader, realize that I now speak for France.