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
Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
I myself have become a Gaullist only little by little.
I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
One cannot govern with 'buts'.
I wouldn't mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
One does not arrest Voltaire.
Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
It is better to have a bad method than to have none.
No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
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