Charles De Gaulle Quotes

Don't think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. As Charles De Gaulle said, the cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.

France had a policy, initiated by General de Gaulle, of trying to turn Europe into what was then called a 'third force,' independent of the two superpowers, so Europe should pursue an independent course.

When France fell in 1940, De Gaulle was a temporary brigadier general.

De Gaulle has all the characteristics to be a dictator.

… vain and malignant

The choice is De Gaulle or anarchy.

[Charles de Gaulle] has been abysmally careless, like a man running a bus over mountains, who forgot to equip it with good brakes.

DeGaulle says “Europe” but he means “France.”

If the Germans are beaten, General de Gaulle will return. He will be supported by 80 or 90 per cent of the French people and I shall be hanged.

We can all admit that [Charles] De Gaulle is one of the biggest sons of bitches who ever straddled a pot.

To be a young Gaullist is to be a revolutionary!

France is a widow.

Hercules King of Rome and of Annemark, three times one surnamed de Gaulle will lead, Italy and the one of St. Mark to tremble, first monarch, renowned above all.

The eight-year-long Algerian war was to bring down six French prime ministers, open the door to de Gaulle - and come close to destroying him, too. The war was the last of the grand-style colonial struggles, but, perhaps more to the point, it was also the first campaign in which poorly equipped Muslim mujahedin licked one of the top Western armies.

I myself have become a Gaullist only little by little.

I woke up one time coming out of a blackout, and I was on an airplane, descending to land in Charles de Gaulle Airport in France. And all I can think is I must have decided it was a good idea to go to France, and got my passport, and got on a plane.

Roosevelt knew never to lose control of the majority of American opinion, unlike his greatest democratic contemporaries, Churchill and De Gaulle, who at times suffered spectacular rejections by their electorates.

I might have had trouble saving France in 1946 - I didn't have television then.

Gaullism. Like fascism before it, reinforces all the privileges of capitalism and disarms the working class … Moreover, De Gaulle develops a national demagoguery typical of all forms of fascism

You are so aggressive that not content with struggling against Germany, Italy and Japan, you want to take on Britain and America.

I consider that France and the Republic were in London during the occupation and that the Vichy regime was not France.

I wholeheartedly welcomed Charles de Gaulle eulogy of French valour, to which he attributed the liberation of Paris.

I've never been a classic Gaulist! Not a Gaulist at all.

When I first arrived at the Matignon, my desire was to reconcile Parliament and De Gaulle. I had forgotten only two things. Parliament and De Gaulle.

De Gaulle was more responsible with his troublesome interventions into our domestic politics, for unifying our country than we will ever give him credit for.