Charles de Gaulle was the man seen by many French people to have been their true leader in World War Two. As a boy Charles de
Gaulle already showed a passionate interest in military and was educated on the history of France and military operations at a young age.
He chose a military career and served with distinction in World War One. Later he was a French general and statesman, leader of
the Free French during World War Two and the architect of the Fifth Republic. His political ideology, 'Gaullism', has become a major influence in French politics .
Charles de Gaulle brought up proud of his heritage and the dream of the greatness of France.
(1890 - 1970)
Old age is a shipwreck.
~ Charles De Gaulle
Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.
~ Charles De Gaulle
One cannot govern with 'buts'.
~ Charles De Gaulle
Only peril can bring the French together. One can't impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.
~ Charles De Gaulle
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
~ Charles De Gaulle
Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
~ Charles De Gaulle
A 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
As an adolescent I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the
interest of life consisted in one day rendering her some signal service and that I would have the occasion to do so.
~ Charles De Gaulle
China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese.
~ Charles De Gaulle
The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
~ Charles De Gaulle
There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
~ Charles De Gaulle
I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.
~ Charles De Gaulle
I might have had trouble saving France in 1946 - I didn't have television then.
~ Charles De Gaulle
I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
~ Charles De Gaulle
I was France.
~ Charles De Gaulle
In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
~ Charles De Gaulle
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?
~ Charles De Gaulle
One does not arrest Voltaire.
~ Charles De Gaulle
Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
~ Charles De Gaulle
A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
~ Charles De Gaulle
Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
~ Charles De Gaulle
In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
~ Charles De Gaulle
Voltaire was a Renaissance man and accomplished playwright, man of letters, politician, and metaphysician.
Voltaire's intelligence, wit and style made him one of France's greatest writers and philosophers.
Voltaire was often an outspoken critic of religious intolerance and persecution.
Given his tendency to engage in polemical attacks on the government and the Catholic church, Voltaire more
than once found himself in a thorny legal position and forced into various exiles and imprisonments.
(1694-1778)
There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
~ Charles Dickens
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
~ George Bernard Shaw
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
~ Friedrich NietzscheMore Proverbs
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