184 Quotes by Charles de Gaulle

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

France has no friends, only interests.

A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.

No, I'm not talking about the Russians; I mean the Germans. In spite of everything, to have pushed so far!

You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.

The future does not belong to men...

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.