Charles De Gaulle Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

16 Famous Quotes by Charles De Gaulle
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“In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country of the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.”
Betrayal Quotes
“No nation has friends only interests”
Nations Quotes
“Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.”
Actions Quotes
“Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.”
Greatness Quotes
“Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.”
Nationalism Quotes
“Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.”
Patriotism Quotes
“Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.”
Politics / government Quotes
“In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.”
Politics / government Quotes
“My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.”
History Quotes
“How can you be expected to govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese?”
History Quotes
“When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other. -Charles De Gaulle.”
Anger Quotes
“For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.”
Glory Quotes
“Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be forgiven him, indeed, they will be regarded as high qualities, if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.”
Leadership Quotes
“A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.”
Leadership Quotes
“The church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.”
Religion / beliefs Quotes
“Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.”
Silence Quotes
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