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Charles de Gaulle [1890-1970] French

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Leader, Former President of France

Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle was a French general and statesman. He was the leader of Free France and the head of the Provisional Government of the French Republic.

Politics, History, Men, Respect, Age, Alone, Best, Chance, Death, Government, Great, Imagination, Leadership, Love, Patriotism, Pet, Power, War

Quote	Tags	Rank
The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.	Men, Pet	101
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.	Love, Patriotism	102
Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.	Politics	103
How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?	Government	104
Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.	Great, Men	105
No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.		106
You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.	Imagination	107
In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.	Politics	108
France cannot be France without greatness.		109
To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.		110
I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.	Respect	111
In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.	Politics	112
The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.	Leadership	113
You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.		114
Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.		115
I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Metro.		116
Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.		117
The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.		118
Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.	Alone, Men	119
Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.		120
Never relinquish the initiative.		121
France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.	War	122
Only peril can bring the French together. One can't impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.		123
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.	Death	124
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.		125
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?	History	126
The graveyards are full of indispensable men.		201
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.	Politics	202
You'll live. Only the best get killed.	Best	203
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.		204
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.		205
You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.		206
The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.	Chance	207
One cannot govern with 'buts'.		208
A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.		209
I might have had trouble saving France in 1946 - I didn't have television then.		210
I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.	Respect	211
Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.	Power	212
Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance.		213
When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.		214
The sword is the axis of the world and its power is absolute.		215
Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.		216
For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.		217
We are not here to laugh.		218
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.	History	219
Old age is a shipwreck.	Age	220
Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.	Politics	221
There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.		222
One does not arrest Voltaire.		223
I was France.	History	224
I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.		225
Hearing Mass is the ceremony I most favor during my travels. Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.		226
Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses; they last while they last.		301
A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.		302
No nation has friends only interests.		303
When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.		304
China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese.		305
Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.		306

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