I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
CHARLES DE GAULLEI feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
CHARLES DE GAULLEAdversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.
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 GAULLETo govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
CHARLES DE GAULLEGenius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
CHARLES DE GAULLEThe future does not belong to men.
CHARLES DE GAULLEThe desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.
CHARLES DE GAULLEVictory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.
CHARLES DE GAULLEMen can have friends, statesmen cannot.
CHARLES DE GAULLEThe evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
CHARLES DE GAULLENo policy is worth anything outside of reality.
CHARLES DE GAULLEOnce 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 GAULLEThere can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
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 GAULLEA true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.
CHARLES DE GAULLEI am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
CHARLES DE GAULLE