Charles de Gaulle Quotes

Old age is a shipwreck.

Charles de Gaulle

The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.

Charles de Gaulle

How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?

Charles de Gaulle

You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.

Charles de Gaulle

The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.

Charles de Gaulle

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

Charles de Gaulle

Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.

Charles de Gaulle

The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.

Charles de Gaulle

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

Charles de Gaulle

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.

Charles de Gaulle

Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Charles de Gaulle

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.

Charles de Gaulle

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.

Charles de Gaulle

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

Charles de Gaulle

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Charles de Gaulle

France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.

Charles de Gaulle