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Famous Quotes Home >> Authors Starting with C >> Quotes By Charles De Gaulle |
| Quote #1: | "Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness of a road leading towards the unknown." |
| Quote #2: | "It will not be any European statesman who will unite Europe Europe will be united by the Chinese." |
| Quote #3: | "I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them." |
| Quote #4: | "I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Mtro." |
| Quote #5: | "Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first." |
| Quote #6: | "As an adolescent ... I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the interest of life consisted in one day rendering her some signal service and that I would have the occasion to do so." |
| Quote #7: | "I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money. (On Vietnam War)" |
| Quote #8: | "I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians." |
| Quote #9: | "A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends." |
| Quote #10: | "The national task that had been incumbent upon me for 18 years is hereby confirmed." |
| Quote #11: | "In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country of the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate." |
| Quote #12: | "Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him." |
| Quote #13: | "How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over 200 varieties of cheeses" |
| Quote #14: | "For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her." |
| Quote #15: | "How can anyone govern a nation that has 246 different kinds of cheese" |
| Quote #16: | "You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination." |
| Quote #17: | "In order to become the master the politician poses as the servant." |
| Quote #18: | "The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects." |
| Quote #19: | "My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial." |
| Quote #20: | "The graveyards are full of indispensable men." |
| Quote #21: | "What do you take me for, an idiot" |
| Quote #22: | "Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so." |
| Quote #23: | "Deliberation is the function of many, action is the function of one." |
| Quote #24: | "I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French." |
| Quote #25: | "Now I shall return to my village and there will remain at the disposition of the nation." |
| Quote #26: | "Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. ... We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time." |
| Quote #27: | "You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul." |
| Quote #28: | "Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop." |
| Quote #29: | "Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last." |
| Quote #30: | "To govern is always to choose among disadvantages." |
| Quote #31: | "When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself." |
| Quote #32: | "I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously." |
| Quote #33: | "The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs." |
| Quote #34: | "Silence is the ultimate weapon of power." |
| Quote #35: | "How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese" |
| Quote #36: | "Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word." |
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