Charles de Gaulle Quotes

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Charles de Gaulle

Profession : Leader

Birth : November 22, 1890

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Charles de Gaulle

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.

Charles de Gaulle

The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.

Charles de Gaulle

You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.

Charles de Gaulle

You'll live. Only the best get killed.

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When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.

Charles de Gaulle

China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese.

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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.

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Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.

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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

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I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Metro.

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The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.

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No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.

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For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.

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Never relinquish the initiative.

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I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.

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France cannot be France without greatness.

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Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance.

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One cannot govern with 'buts'.

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We are not here to laugh.

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