black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.

Charles de Gaulle

Related Topics

Myself Resistance Respect Tolerance

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

I wouldn’t mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Death Mindset Myself Patriot
In politics it is necessary either to betray one’s country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Betrayal Country Election Necessary Politics
How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Country Food Funny Government Yourself
Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Character Difficult Fulfill Himself Man
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

Country Different Funny Oneself Togetherness Unity
Whereas ordinary officers must be content with behaving correctly in front of their men, the great leaders have always carefully stage-managed their effects.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Content Effect Leadership Man Management Ordinary
Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Friendship Man State
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

Build Ego Hard Perfection Pride
To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Advantage Choice Government
The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Oneself Risk True Willing
Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Authority Build Shelter Silence Strong Weakness
My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Country Face heavy Myself Togetherness Trial
You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Beyond Commitment Imagination Stupidity Yourself
One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Governement Oneself
France was built with swords. The fleur-de-lis, symbol of national unity, is only the image of a spear with three pikes.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Build Image Nation Sword
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Conclusion Important Myself Politics Serious

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes