Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
CHARLES DE GAULLEOld age is a shipwreck.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
-
-
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 -
For all of us Frenchmen, the guiding rule of our epoch is to be faithful to France.
CHARLES DE GAULLE -
I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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 -
There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
CHARLES DE GAULLE -
You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
CHARLES DE GAULLE -
We may go to the moon, but that’ s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.
CHARLES DE GAULLE -
Betting against gold is the same as betting on governments. He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history.
CHARLES DE GAULLE -
Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
CHARLES DE GAULLE -
When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
CHARLES DE GAULLE -
France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
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 -
All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
CHARLES DE GAULLE -
To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
CHARLES DE GAULLE -
In 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 GAULLE -
A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities.
CHARLES DE GAULLE -
In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
CHARLES DE GAULLE -
How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
CHARLES DE GAULLE -
I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
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.
CHARLES DE GAULLE -
No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
CHARLES DE GAULLE -
It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.
CHARLES DE GAULLE -
Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
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 -
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.
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.
CHARLES DE GAULLE