01c. 1930 ADAlways choose the most difficult way, there you will not meet competitors.Charles de Gaulle / quote ↗
02c. 1930 ADHow can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?Charles de Gaulle / quote ↗
03c. 1930 ADI have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.Charles de Gaulle / quote ↗
06c. 1930 ADSoyons 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 ↗
07c. 1930 ADNothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.Charles de Gaulle / quote ↗
08c. 1930 ADThe better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.Charles de Gaulle / quote ↗
09c. 1930 ADA 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 ↗
10c. 1930 ADPolitics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.Charles de Gaulle / quote ↗
12c. 1930 ADHow can you be expected to govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese?Charles de Gaulle / quote ↗
14c. 1930 ADBefore such a prodigious career judgement is torn between blame and admiration.Charles de Gaulle / quote ↗
15c. 1930 ADHow can you govern a country with two hundred and forty-six varieties of cheese?Charles de Gaulle / quote ↗
17c. 1930 ADThe 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 ↗
19c. 1930 ADA 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 ↗
20c. 1930 ADEvery 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 ↗
21c. 1930 ADSince a politician never believes what he says he is surprised when others believe him.Charles de Gaulle / quote ↗
22c. 1930 ADIn politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.Charles de Gaulle / quote ↗
23c. 1930 ADIt will not be any European statesman who will unite Europe: Europe will be united by the Chinese.Charles de Gaulle / quote ↗
24c. 1930 ADIn order to become the master the politician poses as the servant.Charles de Gaulle / quote ↗
