184 Quotes by Charles de Gaulle

The cabinet has no propositions to make, but orders to give.

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

The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.

Old France, weighed down with history, prostrated by wars and revolutions, endlessly vacillating from greatness to decline, but revived, century after century, by the genius of renewal!

Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.

Today we are crushed by the sheer weight of the mechanized forces hurled against us, but we can still look to the future in which even greater mechanized forces will bring us victory. Therein lies the destiny of the world.

Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.

Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.

It's better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.