Charles de Gaulle Quotes

» The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

» You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.

» In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.

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

» I was France.

» France cannot be France without greatness.

» The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.

» You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.

» Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.

» To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.

» When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.

» I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.

» 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.

» I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.

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

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

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

» Old age is a shipwreck.

» I might have had trouble saving France in 1946 - I didn't have television then.

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

» Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.

» As an adolescent I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the interest of life consisted in one day rendering her some signal service and that I would have the occasion to do so.

» Hearing Mass is the ceremony I most favor during my travels. Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.

» Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

» I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.

» You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

» Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.

» Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

» Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

» China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese.

» How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?

» Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance.

» How can anyone govern a nation that has 246 different kinds of cheese?

» Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.

» When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.

» Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses; they last while they last.

» In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.

» The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.

» There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.

» The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.

» A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.

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

» Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.

» Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.

» No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.

» I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

» How can you govern a country with two hundred and forty six varieties of cheese?

» 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?

» The sword is the axis of the world and its power is absolute.

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

» Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.

» For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.

» One cannot govern with 'buts'.

» Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.

» No nation has friends only interests.

» Never relinquish the initiative.

» France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.

» The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.

» Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.

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

» A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.

» Only peril can bring the French together. One can't impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.

» We are not here to laugh.

» How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?

» One does not arrest Voltaire.

» 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.

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