Charles de Gaulle

I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge. ”

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone. ”

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent. ”

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

The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks. ”

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word. ”

When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time. ”

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. ”

Old age is a shipwreck. ”

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. ”