Charles de Gaulle Quotes

The Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering.

I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.

Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.

It 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.

Hearing Mass is the ceremony I most favor during my travels. Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.

It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.

Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.

In politics it is necessary either to betray one’s country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.