The leader is always alone before bad fates.
CHARLES DE GAULLEThe leader is always alone before bad fates.
CHARLES DE GAULLEOne can unite the French only under the threat of danger. One cannot simply bring together a nation that produces 265 kinds of cheese.
CHARLES DE GAULLEGreatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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 GAULLEWhen 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 GAULLEHow can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
CHARLES DE GAULLEHe who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
CHARLES DE GAULLETo govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
CHARLES DE GAULLEIt so happens that the world is undergoing a transformation to which no change that has yet occurred can be compared, either in scope or in rapidity.
CHARLES DE GAULLEOne must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death.
CHARLES DE GAULLEThe evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
CHARLES DE GAULLEAll my life I have had a certain idea of France.
CHARLES DE GAULLEI grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.
CHARLES DE GAULLEThe future does not belong to men.
CHARLES DE GAULLEAuthority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
CHARLES DE GAULLEDiplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
CHARLES DE GAULLE