Charles de Gaulle
Charles de Gaulle
Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle; 22 November 1890 – 9 November 1970) was a French military general and statesman. He was the leader of Free Franceand the head of the Provisional Government of the French Republic. In 1958, he founded the Fifth Republic and was elected as the 18th President of France, a position he held until his resignation in 1969. He was the dominant figure of France during the Cold War era and his memory continues to influence...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth22 November 1890
CityLille, France
CountryFrance
Don't think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money." (On Vietnam War)
Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself
These people really aim very badly.
The cemetery is filled with indispensable men.
I'm not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.
France was built with swords. The fleur-de-lis, symbol of national unity, is only the image of a spear with three pikes.
Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
Long live Montreal, Long live Quebec! Long live Free Quebec!
One can unite the French only under the threat of danger. One cannot simply bring together a nation that produces 265 kinds of cheese.
I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Métro.
As an adolescent I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the interest of life consisted in one day rendering her some signal service and that I would have the occasion to do so.