20 Greatest Charles De Gaulle Quotes

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Charles-André-Joseph-Marie de Gaulle (22 November 1890 – 9 November 1970), in France commonly referred to as le général de Gaulle, was a French military leader and statesman. During World War II, he reached the rank of Brigade General and then became the leader of the Forces Françaises Libres ("FFL" — the "Free French Forces"). Between 1944 and 1946, following the liberation of France from German occupation, he was head of the French provisional government. Called to form a government in 1958, he inspired a new constitution and was the Fifth Republic's first president, serving from 1958 to 1969.

Charles De Gaulle Quotes:

Charles De Gaulle Quotes

Charles De Gaulle Quotes

1. The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.

― Charles de Gaulle

 

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

― Charles de Gaulle

 

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

― Charles de Gaulle

 

4. He who laughs last didn't get the joke.

― Charles de Gaulle

 

5. There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.

― Charles de Gaulle

 

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

― Charles de Gaulle

 

7. History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.

― Charles de Gaulle

 

8. When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other.

― Charles de Gaulle

 

9. It is better to have a bad method than to have none.

― Charles de Gaulle

 

10. The sword is the axis of the world, and grandeur is indivisible.

― Charles de Gaulle

 

11. Character is the virtue of hard times.

― Charles de Gaulle

 

12. France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war.

― Charles de Gaulle

 

13. Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

― Charles de Gaulle

 

14. Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

― Charles de Gaulle

 

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

― Charles de Gaulle

 

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

― Charles de Gaulle

 

17. Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.

― Charles de Gaulle

 

18. Old age is a shipwreck.

― Charles de Gaulle

 

19. Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.

― Charles de Gaulle

 

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

― Charles de Gaulle

 

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