Charles de Gaulle (1890 – 1970)
In France commonly referred to as le général de Gaulle, was a French military leader and statesman.
Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
Let us be firm, pure and faithful; at the end of our sorrow, there is the greatest glory of the world, that of the men who did not give in.
Why do you think that at 67 I would start a career as a dictator ?
How can you govern a country which has two hundred and forty-six varieties of cheese?
I am Joan of Arc. I am Clemenceau.
Now she is like everyone else.
Yes, it is Europe, from the Atlantic to the Urals, it is Europe, it is the whole of Europe, that will decide the fate of the world.
"A foreign military leader whose daring was feared by those who profited by it." De Gaulle said that MacArthur's critics should "pay deserved tribute to the legendary service of a great soldier".
The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
Nothing great is done without great men, and they are great because they wanted it.
I am not ill. But do not worry, one day, I will certainly die.
Character is the virtue of hard times.
Of course one can jump up and down yelling Europe ! Europe ! Europe ! But it amounts to nothing and it means nothing.
It is better to have a bad method than to have none.