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
The best of men / That e'er wore earth about him, was a sufferer, / A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit, / The first true gentleman that ever breathed.
Leaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors.
Don't think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself
The cemetery is filled with indispensable men.
Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.
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.
In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?
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.
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.]
The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.