Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
CHARLES DE GAULLEMen are of no importance. What counts is who commands.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
-
-
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 -
In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
CHARLES DE GAULLE -
You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.
CHARLES DE GAULLE -
You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
CHARLES DE GAULLE -
We may go to the moon, but that’ s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.
CHARLES DE GAULLE -
Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
CHARLES DE GAULLE -
When 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 GAULLE -
The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
CHARLES DE GAULLE -
The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
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 -
No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
CHARLES DE GAULLE -
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 -
The future does not belong to men.
CHARLES DE GAULLE -
Leaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors.
CHARLES DE GAULLE -
How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?
CHARLES DE GAULLE