Quotes by Charles de Gaulle

"Old age is a shipwreck."

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

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

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

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"The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects."

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"The graveyards are full of indispensable men."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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"Silence is the ultimate weapon of power."

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

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