Author: Charles de Gaulle

Quotes

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

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

- Charles de Gaulle

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

- Charles de Gaulle

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

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

- Charles de Gaulle

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

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

- Charles de Gaulle

Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

- Charles de Gaulle

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

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

- Charles de Gaulle

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

- Charles de Gaulle

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.

- Charles de Gaulle

It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.

It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.

- Charles de Gaulle

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