Charles De Gaulle

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

We are not here to laugh.

Deliberation is a function of the many action is the function of one.

Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.

Since a politician never believes what he says he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.

One does not arrest Voltaire.

How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?

Always choose the hardest way on it you will not find opponents.

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself.