Quote #10

I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.

More from Charles de Gaulle

  1. 'A foreign military leader whose daring was feared by those who profited by it.' De Gaulle said that MacArthur's critics should 'pay deserv…
  2. Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
  3. 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.
  4. No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
  5. At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.
  6. How can you govern a country which has two hundred and forty-six varieties of cheese?
  7. France has lost a battle, but France has not lost the war.
  8. I am not ill. But do not worry, one day, I will certainly die.

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