Nothing more advances authority than silence.

The noise hides the silence. It does not destroy the silence. (Le bruit cache le silence. - Il ne détruit le silence.)

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)

When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other. -Charles De Gaulle.