Betting against gold is the same as betting on governments. He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history.
CHARLES DE GAULLEHow can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
-
-
I wouldn’t mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
CHARLES DE GAULLE -
Whatever happens, the flame of the French resistance must not be extinguished and will not be extinguished. Tomorrow, as today, I will speak on Radio London.
CHARLES DE GAULLE -
Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
CHARLES DE GAULLE -
Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
CHARLES DE GAULLE -
The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
CHARLES DE GAULLE -
I am not bad, thank you. But don’t worry, one of these days I shall certainly die.
CHARLES DE GAULLE -
Old age is a shipwreck.
CHARLES DE GAULLE -
It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.
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 -
Don’t ask me who’s influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he’s digested, and I’ve been reading all my life.
CHARLES DE GAULLE -
Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
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 -
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 -
Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
CHARLES DE GAULLE -
Hearing Mass is the ceremony I most favor during my travels. Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.
CHARLES DE GAULLE