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
Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
Why do you think that at 67 I would start a career as a dictator ?
One can unite the French only under the threat of danger. One cannot simply bring together a nation that produces 265 kinds of cheese.
The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.
My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
Old France, weighed down with history, prostrated by wars and revolutions, endlessly vacillating from greatness to decline, but revived, century after century, by the genius of renewal!
The cemetery is filled with indispensable men.
These people really aim very badly.
Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself
I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money." (On Vietnam War)
I'm not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
Don't think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
The cabinet has no propositions to make, but orders to give.