Charles de Gaulle
statesperson, memoirist, military theorist, military officer, politician
Read on Wikipedia1890 – 1970
All Quotes by Charles de Gaulle
“The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.”
“The graveyards are full of indispensable men.”
“Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.”
“The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.”
“I was France.”
“You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.”
“Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.”
“The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.”
“Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.”
“Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.”
“Old age is a shipwreck.”
“You'll live. Only the best get killed.”
“The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.”
“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?”
“The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.”
“How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?”
“Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.”