184 Quotes by Charles de Gaulle

In politics it is necessary either to betray one’s country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.

Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that’s the way he shows his passion for equality.

Only peril can bring the French together. One can’t impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.

You’ll live. Only the best get killed.

No nation has friends only interests.

I was France.

We are not here to laugh.

Politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself.