Don’t think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
CHARLES DE GAULLEIt 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.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
-
-
No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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 -
France cannot be France without greatness.
CHARLES DE GAULLE -
In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
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 -
When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.
CHARLES DE GAULLE -
Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
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 -
For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
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 -
Character is the virtue of hard times.
CHARLES DE GAULLE -
I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
CHARLES DE GAULLE -
At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.
CHARLES DE GAULLE -
The Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering.
CHARLES DE GAULLE -
Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
CHARLES DE GAULLE