When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time. – Charles de Gaulle
How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese? – Charles de Gaulle
You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination. – Charles de Gaulle
Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop. – Charles de Gaulle
You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul. – Charles de Gaulle
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. – Charles de Gaulle
Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word. – Charles de Gaulle
I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Metro. – Charles de Gaulle
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. – Charles de Gaulle
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. – Charles de Gaulle
