I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
CHARLES DE GAULLEI am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
-
-
In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
CHARLES DE GAULLE -
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
CHARLES DE GAULLE -
Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
CHARLES DE GAULLE -
The leader is always alone before bad fates.
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 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 -
Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents.
CHARLES DE GAULLE -
It’s impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
CHARLES DE GAULLE -
France cannot be France without greatness.
CHARLES DE GAULLE -
Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
CHARLES DE GAULLE -
Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
CHARLES DE GAULLE -
All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
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 -
Don’t think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
CHARLES DE GAULLE -
When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
CHARLES DE GAULLE