Quotes by Charles de Gaulle

"Old age is a shipwreck."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Silence is the ultimate weapon of power."

"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."