Charles de Gaulle
Charles de Gaulle
Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle; 22 November 1890 – 9 November 1970) was a French military general and statesman. He was the leader of Free Franceand the head of the Provisional Government of the French Republic. In 1958, he founded the Fifth Republic and was elected as the 18th President of France, a position he held until his resignation in 1969. He was the dominant figure of France during the Cold War era and his memory continues to influence...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth22 November 1890
CityLille, France
CountryFrance
I wouldn't mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
One does not arrest Voltaire.
Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
Leaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors.
It is better to have a bad method than to have none.
At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.
No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
I am not bad, thank you. But don't worry, one of these days I shall certainly die.
Don't think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money." (On Vietnam War)
Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself
These people really aim very badly.
The cemetery is filled with indispensable men.