Charles de Gaulle Quotes

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

  Charles de Gaulle

  Integrity, Hate, Patriotic

  Life Magazine, May 9, 1969.

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• You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Funny, Thinking, America

  77 Copy quote

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

  Charles de Gaulle

  Food, Two, Six

  Quoted in Ernest Mignon, Les Mots du General (1962). De Gaulle had earlier been quoted in the N.Y. Times Magazine, 29 June 1958, as saying, "How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheeses?"

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• Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents

  Charles de Gaulle

  Opponents, Way, Hardest

  117 Copy quote

• It will not be any European statesman who will unite Europe: Europe will be united by the Chinese.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Europe, Chinese, Politics

  68 Copy quote

• Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Country, Annoying, Belgium

  78 Copy quote

• The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Leadership, Death, Witty

  93 Copy quote

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

  Charles de Gaulle

  Life, Political, Politics

  Quoted in Clement Attlee, A Prime Minister Remembers (1961) See Briand 2; Clemenceau 4

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• I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Errors, History, Vomiting

  59 Copy quote

• Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Knowing, Genius, Sometimes

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• Nothing more enhances authority than silence. It is the crowning virtue of the strong, the refuge of the weak, the modesty of the proud, the pride of the humble, the prudence of the wise, and the sense of fools. To speak is to . . . dissipate one's strength; whereas what action demands is concentration. Silence is a necessary preliminary to the ordering of one's thoughts.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Strength, Wise, Strong

  Charles de Gaulle (1960). “The Edge of the Sword”, New York : Criterion Books

  110 Copy quote

• Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Mistake, Army, Victory

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• Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Power, Silence, Weapons

  96 Copy quote

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

  Charles de Gaulle

  Funny Love, Dog, Men

  49 Copy quote

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

  Charles de Gaulle

  Country, Independent, Atoms

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• We may go to the moon, but that' s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide

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• China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Country, Stupid, Silly

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

  Charles de Gaulle

  Country, Betrayal, Nerd

  98 Copy quote

• France has no friends, only interests.

  Charles de Gaulle

  No Friends, France, Interest

  29 Copy quote

• Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Gentleman, Answers, Propaganda

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

  Charles de Gaulle

  Inspirational, Success, Determination

  Charles de Gaulle (1960). “The Edge of the Sword”, New York : Criterion Books

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

  Charles de Gaulle

  Trust, Witty, Freedom

  In Ernest Mignon Les Mots du G‚n‚ral (1962) p. 67

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• 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

  Anger, Political, Politics

  73 Copy quote

• Soyons fermes, purs et fidèles ; au bout de nos peines, il y a la plus grande gloire du monde, celle des hommes qui n'ont pas cédé. [Let us be firm, pure and faithful; at the end of our sorrow, there is the greatest glory of the world, that of the men who did not give in.]

  Charles de Gaulle

  Men, Giving, Faithful

  84 Copy quote

• I wouldn't mind dying for France, but not for Air France.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Funny, Travel, Air

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