No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
CHARLES DE GAULLENo policy is worth anything outside of reality.
CHARLES DE GAULLEI am not bad, thank you. But don’t worry, one of these days I shall certainly die.
CHARLES DE GAULLEI wouldn’t mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
CHARLES DE GAULLEYou have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
CHARLES DE GAULLEMen are of no importance. What counts is who commands.
CHARLES DE GAULLECharacter is the virtue of hard times.
CHARLES DE GAULLEA true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.
CHARLES DE GAULLENever relinquish the initiative.
CHARLES DE GAULLEEvery Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that’s the way he shows his passion for equality.
CHARLES DE GAULLEOld age is a shipwreck.
CHARLES DE GAULLEBelgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
CHARLES DE GAULLEBetting 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 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 GAULLESince a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
CHARLES DE GAULLEDifficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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 GAULLE