Betting against gold is the same as betting on governments. He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history. — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
There can be no other criterion, no other standard than gold. Yes, gold which never changes, which can be shaped into ingots, bars, coins, which has no nationality and which is eternally and universally accepted as the unalterable fiduciary value… — 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
