Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.
CHARLES DE GAULLEVictory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.
CHARLES DE GAULLECharacter is the virtue of hard times.
CHARLES DE GAULLEYou start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.
CHARLES DE GAULLEThe true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
CHARLES DE GAULLEFrance cannot be France without greatness.
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 GAULLEFaced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.
CHARLES DE GAULLEOne must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death.
CHARLES DE GAULLEWhatever 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 GAULLEThe evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
CHARLES DE GAULLEFaced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
CHARLES DE GAULLEIt’s better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.
CHARLES DE GAULLEIt’s impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
CHARLES DE GAULLEThese people really aim very badly.
CHARLES DE GAULLEThe Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering.
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 GAULLE