Charles de Gaulle
How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?Collection: Country
Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.Collection: History
Long live Montreal, Long live Quebec! Long live Free Quebec!Collection: Long
Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.Collection: Wisdom
He who laughs last didn't get the joke.Collection: Funny
The leader is always alone before bad fates.Collection: Fate
It is better to have a bad method than to have none.Collection: Method
Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.Collection: Art
How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?Collection: Country
Yes, it is Europe, from the Atlantic to the Urals, it is Europe, it is the whole of Europe, that will decide the fate of the world.Collection: Country
The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.Collection: Passion
The cemetery is filled with indispensable men.Collection: Men
There can be no other criterion, no other standard than gold. Yes, gold which never changes, which can be shaped into ingots, bars, coins, which has no nationality and which is eternally and universally accepted as the unalterable fiduciary value par excellence.Collection: Excellence
The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.Collection: Strong
The future does not belong to men.Collection: Men
Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himselfCollection: Character
Whereas ordinary officers must be content with behaving correctly in front of their men, the great leaders have always carefully stage-managed their effects.Collection: Leadership
It's better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.Collection: Fortune Cookie
A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities.Collection: Inspirational
Character is the virtue of hard times.Collection: Character
Don't think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.Collection: Men
I wouldn't mind dying for France, but not for Air France.Collection: Funny
Soyons fermes, purs et fidèles ; au bout de nos peines, il y a la plus grande gloire du monde, celle des hommes qui n'ont pas cédé. [Let us be firm, pure and faithful; at the end of our sorrow, there is the greatest glory of the world, that of the men who did not give in.]Collection: Men
No, I'm not talking about the Russians; I mean the Germans. In spite of everything, to have pushed so far!Collection: Mean
War stirs in men's hearts the mud of their worst instincts. It puts a premium on violence, nourishes hatred, and gives free rein to cupidity. It crushes the weak, exalts the unworthy, and bolsters tyranny .. .Time and time again it has destroyed all ordered living, devastated hope, and put the prophets to death.Collection: Crush
History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.Collection: Freedom
Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.Collection: Full Potential
Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.Collection: Mistake
At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.Collection: Civilization
I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money." (On Vietnam War)Collection: Money
Betting against gold is the same as betting on governments. He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history.Collection: Government
The Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering.Collection: Self
The cabinet has no propositions to make, but orders to give.Collection: Order
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.Collection: Reading