Famous Quotes / Charles De Gaulle
38 Quotations by Charles De Gaulle
- 21. My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
- 22. No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
- 23. Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined ...
- 24. Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
- 25. Old age is a shipwreck.
- 26. Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our ...
- 27. One must wait until evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death
- 28. Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
- 29. Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
- 30. Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
- 31. The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- 32. The man of character finds an especial attractiveness in difficulty since it is only by coming to gr ...
- 33. The perfection preached in the Gospels never yet built up an empire. Every man of action has a stron ...
- 34. The sword is the axis of the world, and grandeur is indivisible.
- 35. To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
- 36. Treaties are like roses and young girls -- they last while they last
- 37. When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each ...
- 38. You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.