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Facts about Charles de Gaulle SummaryCharles de Gaulle was a famous Leader from France, who lived between November 22, 1890 and November 9, 1970.Zodiac etc.He/she is born under the zodiac sagittarius, who is known for Philosophical, Motion, Experimentation, Optimism. Our collection contains 52 quotes who is written / told by Charles, under the main topics: Men, Pet.Here is some other popular authors who lived in the same timeframe: George Will, Khaleda Zia, Anne Baxter, Clive James, Tom Metzger, Robert F. Kennedy, Ngo Dinh Diem, Margaret Lee Runbeck, Joe Namath, Adlai Stevenson, Arthur C. Clarke, Willie Mays, Mike Ditka, Martin Yan, Thornton Wilder, Casey Stengel, Vince Lombardi, Aldous Huxley, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Øystein Stray Spetalen Famous quotes by Charles de Gaulle (52)  "You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul"
"In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate"
"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"
"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"
"Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life"
"I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Metro"
"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"
"As an adolescent I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the interest of life consisted in one day rendering her some signal service and that I would have the occasion to do so"
"Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time"
"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"
"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?"
"I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians"
"A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless"
"The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines"
"Only peril can bring the French together. One can't impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese"
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