China is a big country with a lot of chinese people living there — Charles De Gaulle Copy Share Image
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first. — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown. — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
Don't ask who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life. — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share
“Have you ever seen a dictator on a run-off ballot? [Responding to the charges of a dictatorial bent, after being forced into a run-off… — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share
Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance. — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share
Today we are crushed by the sheer weight of the mechanized forces hurled against us, but we can still look to the future in… — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share
Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share
Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential. — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share
How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese? — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share
Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak. — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share
As an adolescent I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the interest of life consisted in one day… — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share
