General Charles DeGaulle Quotes
Most popular General Charles DeGaulle Quotes
I was France.
Old age is a shipwreck.
What do you take me for, an idiot?
Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
Greatness is a road that leads toward something unknown.
The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.
Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
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.
Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
Justice which does not bear a sword beside its scales soon falls into ridicule.
Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over 200 varieties of cheese?
I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
The French will only be united under the threat of danger. Nobody can simply bring together a country that has 265 kinds of cheese.
A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.
The man of character finds an especial attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities.
History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads. People get the history they deserve.
Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.
Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.
