The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
CHARLES DE GAULLEThe better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
CHARLES DE GAULLEI feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
CHARLES DE GAULLEAuthority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
CHARLES DE GAULLEThe leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.
CHARLES DE GAULLEHow can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?
CHARLES DE GAULLESince a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
CHARLES DE GAULLEThe true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
CHARLES DE GAULLEPatriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
CHARLES DE GAULLEThese people really aim very badly.
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 GAULLEWhereas 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 GAULLEOnce upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.
CHARLES DE GAULLEOnly 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 GAULLEWhen I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
CHARLES DE GAULLEDeliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
CHARLES DE GAULLEThe desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.
CHARLES DE GAULLE