Charles De Gaulle
17 quotations
Old age is a shipwreck.
Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains, they drown in every drop.
For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
How can you govern a country with two hundred and forty six varieties of cheese?
No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
I respect only those who resist me; but I cannot tolerate them.
Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.
I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war.
Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
Treaties are like roses and young girls -- they last while they last
The sword is the axis of the world, and grandeur is indivisible.
Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.