Quotes from Charles de Gaulle

One cannot govern with 'buts'.

One does not arrest Voltaire.

I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.

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

A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.

No nation has friends only interests.

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

I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.

We are not here to laugh.

The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.

Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that's the way he shows his passion for equality

He who laughs last didn't get the joke.

How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?

Old age is a shipwreck.

Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

China is a big country with a lot of chinese people living there