Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
CHARLES DE GAULLENothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
CHARLES DE GAULLEFaced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
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 GAULLEI have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
CHARLES DE GAULLEHow can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
CHARLES DE GAULLEThe true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
CHARLES DE GAULLEFrance has no friends, only interests.
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 GAULLEThe graveyards are full of indispensable men.
CHARLES DE GAULLENo country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
CHARLES DE GAULLEThese people really aim very badly.
CHARLES DE GAULLEThe leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.
CHARLES DE GAULLEOnly 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 GAULLENo policy is worth anything outside of reality.
CHARLES DE GAULLEDon’t think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
CHARLES DE GAULLEI 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