I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent… — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
Betting against gold is the same as betting on governments. He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years… — 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
In the tumult of great events, solitude was what I hoped for. Now it is what I love. How is it possible… — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
Old France, weighed down with history, prostrated by wars and revolutions, endlessly vacillating from greatness to decline, but revived, century after century,… — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought… — Charles De Gaulle Copy Share Image
History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens… — 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
