01UndatedAlways choose the most difficult way, there you will not meet competitors.Charles de Gaulle / quote ↗
03UndatedI have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.Charles de Gaulle / quote ↗
06UndatedSoyons 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 / quote ↗
07UndatedNothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.Charles de Gaulle / quote ↗
08UndatedThe better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.Charles de Gaulle / quote ↗
09UndatedA man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities.Charles de Gaulle / quote ↗
12UndatedHow can you be expected to govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese?Charles de Gaulle / quote ↗
14UndatedBefore such a prodigious career judgement is torn between blame and admiration.Charles de Gaulle / quote ↗
15UndatedHow can you govern a country with two hundred and forty-six varieties of cheese?Charles de Gaulle / quote ↗
17UndatedThe perfection preached in the Gospels never yet built up an Empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of optimism pride hardness and cunning. But all these things will be forgiven him indeed they will be regarded as high qualities if he can make of them the means to achieve great ends.Charles de Gaulle / quote ↗
19UndatedA 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 / quote ↗
20UndatedEvery man of action has a strong dose of egotism pride hardness and cunning. But all those things will be forgiven him indeed they will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.Charles de Gaulle / quote ↗
21UndatedSince a politician never believes what he says he is surprised when others believe him.Charles de Gaulle / quote ↗
22UndatedIn politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.Charles de Gaulle / quote ↗
23UndatedIt will not be any European statesman who will unite Europe: Europe will be united by the Chinese.Charles de Gaulle / quote ↗
24UndatedIn order to become the master the politician poses as the servant.Charles de Gaulle / quote ↗
