Charles de Gaulle

"Old age is a shipwreck."

"Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone."

"You'll live. Only the best get killed."

"It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge."

"I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French."

"In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?"