Charles de Gaulle

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

I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Metro. ”

The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines. ”

Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back. ”

Hearing Mass is the ceremony I most favor during my travels. Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back. ”

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

No nation has friends only interests. ”

How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese? ”

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. ”

For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her. ”