Top 15 Charles de Gaulle Quotes

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.

The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.

I am Joan of Arc. I am Clemenceau.

Un état digne de ce nom n'a pas d'amis.

A state worthy of the name has no friends.

Within ten years, we shall have the means to kill 80 million Russians. I truly believe that one does not light-heartedly attack people who are able to kill 80 million Russians, even if one can kill 800 million French, that is if there were 800 million French.

"Do you know that you have caused us more trouble than all the rest of our European allies?" "I do not doubt it. France is a great power."

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.

Les hommes peuvent avoir des amis, pas les hommes d'Etat.

Men may have friends, statesmen cannot.

I must say that if, on resuming control of our affairs, I embraced the Common Market forthwith, it was as much because of our position as an agricultural country as for the spur it would give to our industry.

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

The future does not belong to men and I do not predict it.

Certains même redoutaient que les Juifs, jusqu'alors dispersés, mais qui étaient restés ce qu'ils avaient été de tout temps, c'est à dire un peuple d'élite, sûr de lui-même et dominateur, n'en viennent, une fois rassemblés dans le site de leur ancienne grandeur, à changer en ambition ardente et conquérante les souhaits très émouvants qu'ils formaient depuis 19 siècles : l'an prochain à Jérusalem.

Some even feared that the Jews, hitherto widely dispersed and who had remained what they had always been, that is to say, an elite people, sure of itself and domineering, once they were together again in the lands of their former grandeur might transform into a burning, conquering ambition the heart-moving wishes voiced since nineteen centuries: next year in Jerusalem.