“It is better to have a bad method than to have none.”

“I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.”

“The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.”

“Have you ever seen a dictator on a run-off ballot? [Responding to the charges of a dictatorial bent, after being forced into a run-off against the socialist François Mitterrand in the 1965 presidential elections]”

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

“The cemeteries are full of indispensable men.”

“France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war”