Charles de Gaulle Quotes - 9quotes.com

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The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
Written by Charles de Gaulle
You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.
Written by Charles de Gaulle
In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
Written by Charles de Gaulle
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Written by Charles de Gaulle
I was France.
Written by Charles de Gaulle
France cannot be France without greatness.
Written by Charles de Gaulle
The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.
Written by Charles de Gaulle
You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.
Written by Charles de Gaulle
Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
Written by Charles de Gaulle
To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
Written by Charles de Gaulle
When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
Written by Charles de Gaulle
I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
Written by 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.
Written by Charles de Gaulle
I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
Written by Charles de Gaulle
I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Metro.
Written by Charles de Gaulle
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
Written by Charles de Gaulle
Old age is a shipwreck.
Written by Charles de Gaulle
I might have had trouble saving France in 1946 - I didn't have television then.
Written by Charles de Gaulle
You'll live. Only the best get killed.
Written by Charles de Gaulle
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.
Written by Charles de Gaulle
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.
Written by Charles de Gaulle
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.
Written by 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.
Written by Charles de Gaulle
I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.
Written by Charles de Gaulle
You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
Written by Charles de Gaulle
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.
Written by Charles de Gaulle
Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
Written by Charles de Gaulle
Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Written by Charles de Gaulle
China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese.
Written by Charles de Gaulle
Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
Written by Charles de Gaulle

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