How can you be expected to govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese?

My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.

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.