Charles de Gaulle quotes

Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. (Charles de Gaulle)
In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
Charles de Gaulle
How can anyone govern a nation that has 246 different kinds of cheese.
Charles de Gaulle
Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents.
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
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
You'll live. Only the best get killed.
Charles de Gaulle
When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
Charles de Gaulle
France cannot be France without greatness.
Charles de Gaulle
France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war.
Charles de Gaulle
Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life. (Charles de Gaulle)
France has no friends, only interests.
Charles de Gaulle
Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
Charles de Gaulle
No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
Charles de Gaulle
I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
Charles de Gaulle
No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
Charles de Gaulle
Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
Charles de Gaulle
It is better to have a bad method than to have none.
Charles de Gaulle
The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
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
Character is the virtue of hard times. (Charles de Gaulle)
Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
Charles de Gaulle
Yes, it is Europe, from the Atlantic to the Urals, it is Europe, it is the whole of Europe, that will decide the fate of the world.
Charles de Gaulle
I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
Charles de Gaulle
The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
Charles de Gaulle