History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.

You can’t change the past. You can’t even change the future, in the sense that you can only change the present one moment at a time, stubbornly, until the future unwinds itself into the stories of our lives.

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

You'll live. Only the best get killed.

France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war! (Proclamation, 18 June 1940)

Nothing more advances authority than silence.