Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents.
CHARLES DE GAULLEAlways choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents.
CHARLES DE GAULLEAdversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.
CHARLES DE GAULLENo policy is worth anything outside of reality.
CHARLES DE GAULLEMy dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
CHARLES DE GAULLEYou may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.
CHARLES DE GAULLEFrance cannot be France without greatness.
CHARLES DE GAULLEPolitics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
CHARLES DE GAULLEAt the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.
CHARLES DE GAULLETreaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
CHARLES DE GAULLEHow can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
CHARLES DE GAULLEOne cannot govern with ‘buts’.
CHARLES DE GAULLEHe who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
CHARLES DE GAULLEIn the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?
CHARLES DE GAULLEIt is better to have a bad method than to have none.
CHARLES DE GAULLEHow can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?
CHARLES DE GAULLEEvery Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that’s the way he shows his passion for equality.
CHARLES DE GAULLE