Charles de Gaulle
Leader
1890-11-22 – 1970-11-09
Charles de Gaulle was a French general and statesman who led the Free French movement during World War II. He later founded the Fifth Republic and served as president of France.
Books by Charles de Gaulle
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Meḿoires de guerre
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Le fil de l'épée
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Mémoires d'espoir
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Quotes by Charles de Gaulle
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France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war
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How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
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I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
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Always choose the most difficult way, there you will not meet competitors.
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How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
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France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war
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I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
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Always choose the most difficult way, there you will not meet competitors.
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Old age is a shipwreck.
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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.
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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.
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In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?
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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.
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Hearing Mass is the ceremony I most favor during my travels. Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.
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Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses; they last while they last.
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I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.
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Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
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The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.
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