Faced 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 GAULLENo, I’m not talking about the Russians; I mean the Germans. In spite of everything, to have pushed so far!
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
-
-
The leader is always alone before bad fates.
CHARLES DE GAULLE -
The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.
CHARLES DE GAULLE -
Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
CHARLES DE GAULLE -
Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
CHARLES DE GAULLE -
Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
CHARLES DE GAULLE -
One 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 GAULLE -
I am not bad, thank you. But don’t worry, one of these days I shall certainly die.
CHARLES DE GAULLE -
One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death.
CHARLES DE GAULLE -
Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
CHARLES DE GAULLE -
Whatever 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 GAULLE -
We may go to the moon, but that’ s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.
CHARLES DE GAULLE -
Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
CHARLES DE GAULLE -
All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
CHARLES DE GAULLE -
Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
CHARLES DE GAULLE -
When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
CHARLES DE GAULLE






