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
I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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.
No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.
Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
No, I'm not talking about the Russians; I mean the Germans. In spite of everything, to have pushed so far!
Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents
You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
The national task that had been incumbent upon me for 18 years is hereby confirmed.
Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains, they drown in every drop.
Now I shall return to my village and there will remain at the disposition of the nation.
The sword is the axis of the world, and grandeur is indivisible.