Charles de Gaulle Quotes

The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
Charles de Gaulle

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
Charles de Gaulle

Patriotism, Love, Hate

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
Charles de Gaulle

Politics, Become, Order

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

Crisis, Character, Makes

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

Politics, Serious, Matter

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
Charles de Gaulle

Power, Silence, Ultimate

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

True, Cannot, Others

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

Judge, Leader, Big

Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.
Charles de Gaulle

Life, Made, Reading

China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese.
Charles de Gaulle

Country, Big, China

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

Her, Glory, Herself

Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Charles de Gaulle

Politics, Serious, Matter

Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
Charles de Gaulle

Work, Distance, Authority

How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
Charles de Gaulle

Different, Two, Nation

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
Charles de Gaulle

Men, Full, Graveyards

France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
Charles de Gaulle

War, Lost, Battle

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

Respect, Cannot, Tolerate

You'll live. Only the best get killed.
Charles de Gaulle

Old age is a shipwreck.
Charles de Gaulle

Age, Old, Shipwreck

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
Charles de Gaulle

Politics, Country, Betray

It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.
Charles de Gaulle

Death, Humanity, Sacrifice

Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
Charles de Gaulle

Men, Great, Nothing

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
Charles de Gaulle

Word, Since, Quite

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

Weather, Fair, Soon

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

Else, Fast, Feet

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Leader

Born: November 22, 1890

Died: November 9, 1970

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