Charles de Gaulle Quotes

On ne fait rien de grand sans de grands hommes, et ceux-ci le sont pour l'avoir voulu.

Le désir du privilège et le goût de l'égalité, passions dominantes et contradictoires des Français de toute époque.

Vive Montreal; Vive le Québec! Vive le Québec libre!

La difficulté attire l'homme de caractère, car c'est en l'étreignant qu'il se réalise lui-même.

I am retiring. I have a mission, and it is coming to an end … France may still one day need an image that is pure. She must be left this image. If Joan of Arc had married, she would no longer have been Joan of Arc.

When we were children, we often played war. We had a fine collection of lead soldiers. My brothers would take different countries: Xavier had Italy; Pierre, Germany. Or they would swap around. Well, I, gentlemen, always had France.

Rien ne rehausse l'autorité mieux que le silence, splendeur des forts et refuge des faibles.

Why do you think that at 67 I would start a career as a dictator?

Je suis un homme qui n'appartient à personne et qui appartient à tout le monde.

Now she is like the others.

Difficulty attracts a man of character, for it is by embracing it that he fulfills himself.

France cannot be France without greatness.

I am not ill. But do not worry, one day, I will certainly die.

L'avenir n'appartient pas aux hommes et je ne le prédis pas.

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.