The future does not belong to men.
CHARLES DE GAULLEThe future does not belong to men.
CHARLES DE GAULLEWhen I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
CHARLES DE GAULLEWe may go to the moon, but that’ s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.
CHARLES DE GAULLEDeliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
CHARLES DE GAULLEThe 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 GAULLEI respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
CHARLES DE GAULLEBelgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
CHARLES DE GAULLENothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
CHARLES DE GAULLEVictory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.
CHARLES DE GAULLEOld age is a shipwreck.
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 GAULLENo policy is worth anything outside of reality.
CHARLES DE GAULLEI am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
CHARLES DE GAULLEMy dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
CHARLES DE GAULLEAt 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