Charles de Gaulle Quotes

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Charles de Gaulle

Profession : Leader

Birth : November 22, 1890

One does not arrest Voltaire.

Charles de Gaulle

Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.

Charles de Gaulle

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?

Charles de Gaulle

A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.

Charles de Gaulle

When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.

Charles de Gaulle

I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.

Charles de Gaulle

Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses; they last while they last.

Charles de Gaulle

To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.

Charles de Gaulle

I might have had trouble saving France in 1946 - I didn't have television then.

Charles de Gaulle

Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.

Charles de Gaulle

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.

Charles de Gaulle

A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.

Charles de Gaulle

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.

Charles de Gaulle

I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.

Charles de Gaulle

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.

Charles de Gaulle

The sword is the axis of the world and its power is absolute.

Charles de Gaulle