How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese? — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate. — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial. — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
Only peril can bring the French together. One can't impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different… — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent. — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France… — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
Yes, it is Europe, from the Atlantic to the Urals, it is Europe, it is the whole of Europe, that will decide… — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French. — 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 Image
“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 Image
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance. — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
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 Image
Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential. — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese? — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
