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
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.
I wouldn't mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
One does not arrest Voltaire.
It is better to have a bad method than to have none.
I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money." (On Vietnam War)
I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Métro.
France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
The Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering.
No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
Hearing Mass is the ceremony I most favor during my travels. Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.
In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.