Charles de Gaulle Quotes

"How do you govern a country which has 246 different kinds of cheese?"
-Charles de Gaulle

"Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word."
-Charles de Gaulle in Politicians quotes.

"I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians."
-Charles de Gaulle in Politics 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."
-Charles de Gaulle in Leadership quotes.

"To govern is always to choose among disadvantages."
-Charles de Gaulle

"The graveyards are full of indispensable men."
-Charles de Gaulle

"Man wasn't made to be guilty."
-Charles de Gaulle

"I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French."
-Charles de Gaulle

"We may go to the moon, but that's not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us."
-Charles de Gaulle

"You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless."
-Charles de Gaulle

"Never relinquish the initiative."
-Charles de Gaulle

"How can one conceive of a one party system in a country that has over 200 varieties of cheese."
-Charles de Gaulle

"The perfection preached in the Gospels never yet built up an empire. 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 of them the means to achieve great ends."
-Charles de Gaulle

"For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her."
-Charles de Gaulle

"In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant."
-Charles de Gaulle