Quotes by Gaulle, Charles De

"Old age is a shipwreck."

Gaulle, Charles De on age and aging
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"Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so."

Gaulle, Charles De on determination
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"Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains, they drown in every drop."

Gaulle, Charles De on diplomacy
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"For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her."

Gaulle, Charles De on glory
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"The graveyards are full of indispensable men."

Gaulle, Charles De on humility
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"When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other."

Gaulle, Charles De on anger
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"In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant."

Gaulle, Charles De on master
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"How can you govern a country with two hundred and forty six varieties of cheese?"

Gaulle, Charles De on nations
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"No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent."

Gaulle, Charles De on nuclear age
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"I respect only those who resist me; but I cannot tolerate them."

Gaulle, Charles De on opposition
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"Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him."

Gaulle, Charles De on politics
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"I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians."

Gaulle, Charles De on politics
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"Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence."

Gaulle, Charles De on authority
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"France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war."

Gaulle, Charles De on battles
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"Silence is the ultimate weapon of power."

Gaulle, Charles De on silence
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"In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?"

Gaulle, Charles De on solitude
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"Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone."

Gaulle, Charles De on action
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"Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends."

Gaulle, Charles De on action
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"Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own."

Gaulle, Charles De on character
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"Treaties are like roses and young girls -- they last while they last"

Gaulle, Charles De on treaties
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"The sword is the axis of the world, and grandeur is indivisible."

Gaulle, Charles De on world
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"Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back."

Gaulle, Charles De on churches
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