Charles de Gaulle (1890 – 1970)
In France commonly referred to as le général de Gaulle, was a French military leader and statesman.
Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering.
At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.
All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
Anything can happen someday, even that an act conforming to honour and honesty can end up, at the end of the line, as a good political decision.
Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
The sword is the axis of the world and grandeur cannot be divided.
France has lost a battle, but France has not lost the war.
No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.
France has no friends, only interests.
The future does not belong to men...
France was built with swords. The fleur-de-lis, symbol of national unity, is only the image of a spear with three pikes.
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
Long live Montreal, Long live Quebec! Long live Free Quebec!
I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
France cannot be France without greatness.