Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Métro.
Charles de Gaulle
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Charles de Gaulle
Age: 79 †
Born: 1890
Born: November 22
Died: 1970
Died: November 9
Former President Of The French Republic
Memoirist
Military Personnel
Military Theorist
Politician
Statesperson
Rijsel
Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle
General Charles Andre Joseph Marie de Gaulle
Diplomats
Bourgeois
Military
Take
People
More quotes by Charles de Gaulle
Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
Charles de Gaulle
I wouldn't mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
Charles de Gaulle
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
Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges that's the way he shows his passion for equality
Charles de Gaulle
For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
Charles de Gaulle
It so happens that the world is undergoing a transformation to which no change that has yet occurred can be compared, either in scope or in rapidity.
Charles de Gaulle
China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese.
Charles de Gaulle
How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?
Charles de Gaulle
Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.
Charles de Gaulle
The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
Charles de Gaulle
Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
Charles de Gaulle
The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.
Charles de Gaulle
It will not be any European statesman who will unite Europe: Europe will be united by the Chinese.
Charles de Gaulle
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.
Charles de Gaulle
I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
Charles de Gaulle
One does not arrest Voltaire.
Charles de Gaulle
What do you take me for, an idiot?
Charles de Gaulle
France has no friends, only interests.
Charles de Gaulle
My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
Charles de Gaulle
One can unite the French only under the threat of danger. One cannot simply bring together a nation that produces 265 kinds of cheese.
Charles de Gaulle
