Famous Quotes

Quotes by Charles De Gaulle

• Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
• Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
• France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
• I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.
• I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
• 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.
• I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
• 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.
• In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?
• 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.
• Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
• Old age is a shipwreck.
• Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
• Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
• Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
• The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
• The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.
• The sword is the axis of the world and its power is absolute.
• You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.
• You'll live. Only the best get killed.