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

Quote by Charles De Gaulle

Topics: Charles De Gaulle Quotes

Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.

Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.

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

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

The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.

The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.

No nation has friends only interests

No nation has friends only interests

I have come to the conclusions that politics are too serious a matter to be...

I have come to the conclusions that politics are too serious a matter to be...

I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.

I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.

France cannot be France without greatness.

France cannot be France without greatness.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Old age is a shipwreck.

Old age is a shipwreck.

We are not here to laugh.

We are not here to laugh.

Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.

Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.

When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.

When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.

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

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

As an adolescent I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials,...

As an adolescent I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials,...

Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution....

Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution....

I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you...

I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you...

If I can't play for big money, I play for a little money. And if...

If I can't play for big money, I play for a little money. And if...

Money is a bottomless sea, in which honor, conscience, and truth may be drowned

Money is a bottomless sea, in which honor, conscience, and truth may be drowned