Top 58 Quotes by Charles de Gaulle

It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.

Old age is a shipwreck.

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.

The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.

Hearing Mass is the ceremony I most favor during my travels. Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.

The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.

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.

I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Metro.