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You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.

Charles de Gaulle

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How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Country Food Funny Government Yourself
In politics it is necessary either to betray one’s country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Betrayal Country Election Necessary Politics
No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Country Independent
The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Build Ego Hard Perfection Pride
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Love Nation Patriot People Yourself
France was built with swords. The fleur-de-lis, symbol of national unity, is only the image of a spear with three pikes.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Build Image Nation Sword
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

Achievement Endeavour Leadership Remember
Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that’s the way he shows his passion for equality.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Enjoyment Equality Himself Passion Privilege
How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Different Food Government Kind Nation Rule
I am not bad, thank you. But don’t worry, one of these days I shall certainly die.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Death Myself Thankful
At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Civilization Freedom Leisure Root Work
I wouldn’t mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Death Mindset Myself Patriot
The Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Confidence Domination Elite People Time
Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Annoy Country Creation Invention
To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Advantage Choice Government
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

History Man Myself Satisfaction Solitude Temptation Yourself

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