Charles De Gaulle Quotes
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Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
— Charles De Gaulle
Never relinquish the initiative.
— Charles De Gaulle
Long live free Quebec!
— Charles De Gaulle
The leader is always alone before bad fates.
— Charles De Gaulle
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.
— Charles De Gaulle
Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.
— Charles De Gaulle
All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
— Charles De Gaulle
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.
— Charles De Gaulle
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.
— Charles De Gaulle
Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
— Charles De Gaulle
One must speak little. In action one must say nothing. The chief is the one who does not speak.
— Charles De Gaulle
One cannot govern with 'buts'.
— Charles De Gaulle
Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
— Charles De Gaulle
I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money. (On Vietnam War)
— Charles De Gaulle
I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
— Charles De Gaulle
Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
— Charles De Gaulle
Why do you think that at 67 I would start a career as a dictator ?
— Charles De Gaulle
A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.
— Charles De Gaulle
Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
— Charles De Gaulle
France cannot be France without greatness.
— Charles De Gaulle
Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
— Charles De Gaulle
How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
— Charles De Gaulle
Don't think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. As Charles De Gaulle said, the cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
— Donald Rumsfeld
When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
— Charles De Gaulle
I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Metro.
— Charles De Gaulle
Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
— Charles De Gaulle
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.
— Charles De Gaulle
France has no friends, only interests.
— Charles De Gaulle
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
— Charles De Gaulle
I always thought I was Jeanne d'Arc and Bonaparte. How little one knows oneself.
— Charles De Gaulle
Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.
— Charles De Gaulle
For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
— Charles De Gaulle
The sword is the axis of the world and grandeur cannot be divided.
— Charles De Gaulle
I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.
— Charles De Gaulle
How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
— Charles De Gaulle
Long live Montreal, Long live Quebec! Long live Free Quebec!
— Charles De Gaulle
No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
— Charles De Gaulle
Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
— Charles De Gaulle
The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
— Charles De Gaulle
Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.
— Charles De Gaulle
Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself
— Charles De Gaulle
I am a man who belongs to nobody and who belongs to everybody.
— Charles De Gaulle
The cabinet has no propositions to make, but orders to give.
— Charles De Gaulle
Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
— Charles De Gaulle
How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?
— Charles De Gaulle
In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
— Charles De Gaulle
The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.
— Charles De Gaulle
I wholeheartedly welcomed Charles de Gaulle eulogy of French valour, to which he attributed the liberation of Paris.
— Coco Chanel
Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
— Charles De Gaulle
Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.
— Charles De Gaulle
France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
— Charles De Gaulle
You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.
— Charles De Gaulle
Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.
— Charles De Gaulle
They really are bad shots.
— Charles De Gaulle
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.
— Charles De Gaulle
The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
— Charles De Gaulle
The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
— Charles De Gaulle
Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents
— Charles De Gaulle
I am too poor to bow.
— Charles De Gaulle
I'm not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
— Charles De Gaulle
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
— Charles De Gaulle
Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
— Charles De Gaulle
I am not bad, thank you. But don't worry, one of these days I shall certainly die.
— Charles De Gaulle
The future does not belong to men ...
— Charles De Gaulle
France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war
— Charles De Gaulle
The more I get to know men, the more I love dogs.
— Charles De Gaulle
These people really aim very badly.
— Charles De Gaulle
The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.
— Charles De Gaulle
No, I'm not talking about the Russians; I mean the Germans. In spite of everything, to have pushed so far!
— Charles De Gaulle
The cemeteries are full of indispensable men.
— Charles De Gaulle
In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
— Charles De Gaulle
No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
— Charles De Gaulle
Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
— Charles De Gaulle
Nothing lasts until it is incessantly renewed
— Charles De Gaulle
I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
— Charles De Gaulle
One does not arrest Voltaire.
— Charles De Gaulle
In order to be the master, the politician poses as the servant.
— Charles De Gaulle
China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese.
— 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
Character is the virtue of hard times.
— Charles De Gaulle
It is better to have a bad method than to have none.
— Charles De Gaulle
Leaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors.
— Charles De Gaulle
The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.
— Charles De Gaulle
[Charles de Gaulle] has been abysmally careless, like a man running a bus over mountains, who forgot to equip it with good brakes.
— Janet Flanner
I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
— Charles De Gaulle
It's better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.
— Charles De Gaulle
Treaties you see are like girls and roses; they last while they last.
— Charles De Gaulle
It will not be any European statesman who will unite Europe: Europe will be united by the Chinese.
— Charles De Gaulle
Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
— 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
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.
— Charles De Gaulle
You'll live. Only the best get killed.
— Charles De Gaulle
A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
— Charles De Gaulle
We are not here to laugh.
— Charles De Gaulle
It's impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
— Charles De Gaulle
I myself have become a Gaullist only little by little.
— Charles De Gaulle
My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
— Charles De Gaulle
I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
— Charles De Gaulle