Charles De Gaulle Quotes
Enjoy the top 129 famous quotes, sayings and quotations by Charles De Gaulle.
“The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.”
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— Charles De Gaulle
China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese.
— Charles De Gaulle
You'll live. Only the best get killed.
— Charles De Gaulle
“I am a man who belongs to nobody and who belongs to everybody.”
— Charles De Gaulle
“Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.”
— Charles De Gaulle
The sword is the axis of the world and grandeur cannot be divided.
— Charles De Gaulle
“No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.”
— Charles De Gaulle
“To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.”
— Charles De Gaulle
— Charles De Gaulle
“The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.”
— Charles De Gaulle
“How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?”
— Charles De Gaulle
“France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.”
— Charles De Gaulle
Never relinquish the initiative.
— Charles De Gaulle
— Charles De Gaulle
— Charles De Gaulle
“The graveyards are full of indispensable men.”
— Charles De Gaulle
— Charles De Gaulle
“Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.”
— Charles De Gaulle
“Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance.”
— Charles De Gaulle
“The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.”
— Charles De Gaulle
There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
— Charles De Gaulle
— Charles De Gaulle
“One does not arrest Voltaire.”
— Charles De Gaulle
“I might have had trouble saving France in 1946 - I didn't have television then.”
— Charles De Gaulle
“When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.”
— Charles De Gaulle
— Charles De Gaulle
“Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents”
— Charles De Gaulle
Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.
— Charles De Gaulle
“Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.”
— Charles De Gaulle
“Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.”
— Charles De Gaulle
“He who laughs last didn't get the joke.”
— Charles De Gaulle
In the tumult of great events, solitude was what I hoped for. Now it is what I love. How is it possible to be contented with anything else when one has come face to face with history?
— Charles De Gaulle
“It will not be any European statesman who will unite Europe: Europe will be united by the Chinese.”
— Charles De Gaulle
“Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.”
— Charles De Gaulle
“Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.”
— Charles De Gaulle
— Charles De Gaulle
— Charles De Gaulle
“Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself”
— Charles De Gaulle
“The cemetery is filled with indispensable men.”
— Charles De Gaulle
One can unite the French only under the threat of danger. One cannot simply bring together a nation that produces 265 kinds of cheese.
— Charles De Gaulle
“The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.”
— Charles De Gaulle
Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that's the way he shows his passion for equality
— Charles De Gaulle
— Charles De Gaulle
They really are bad shots.
— Charles De Gaulle
I wouldn't mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
— Charles De Gaulle
“It's impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.”
— Charles De Gaulle
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