More from Charles de Gaulle

  1. Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
  2. How can you govern a country which has two hundred and forty-six varieties of cheese?
  3. I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
  4. I am not ill. But do not worry, one day, I will certainly die.
  5. 'A foreign military leader whose daring was feared by those who profited by it.' De Gaulle said that MacArthur's critics should 'pay deserv…
  6. Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
  7. 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.
  8. The future does not belong to men...

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