Charles De Gaulle Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Charles De Gaulle
Charles De Gaulle Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Charles De Gaulle on Wise Famous Quotes.
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.
It so happens that the world is undergoing a transformation to which no change that has yet occurred can be compared, either in scope or in rapidity.
The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.
When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.
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.
Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
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.
A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.
You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.
I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Metro.
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.
At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.
Yes, it is Europe, from the Atlantic to the Urals, it is Europe, it is the whole of Europe, that will decide the fate of the world.
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.
France was built with swords. The fleur-de-lis, symbol of national unity, is only the image of a spear with three pikes.
We may go to the moon, but that' s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.
The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.
You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.
How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?
No, I'm not talking about the Russians; I mean the Germans. In spite of everything, to have pushed so far!
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.
In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that's the way he shows his passion for equality
One can unite the French only under the threat of danger. One cannot simply bring together a nation that produces 265 kinds of cheese.