The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times. — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of… — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
It's impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese. — 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
The Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering. — 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
