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Charles de Gaulle was the man seen by many French people to have been their true leader in World War Two. As a boy, Charles de Gaulle already showed a passionate interest in the military and was educated on the history of France and military operations at a young age. He chose a military career and served with distinction in World War One.<\/p>\n
Later, he was a French general and statesman, leader of the Free French during World War Two, and the architect of the Fifth Republic. His political ideology, ‘Gaullism’, has become a major influence in French politics.
\nCharles de Gaulle brought up proud of his heritage and the dream of the greatness of France. (1890 – 1970)<\/p>\n
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Old age is a shipwreck.<\/strong> 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.<\/strong> One cannot govern with ‘buts’.<\/strong> 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.<\/strong> Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.<\/strong> Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.<\/strong> A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.<\/strong> As an adolescent I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the interest of life consisted in one day rendering her some signal service and that I would have the occasion to do so.<\/strong> China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese.<\/strong> The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.<\/strong> There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.<\/strong> I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.<\/strong> I might have had trouble saving France in 1946 – I didn’t have television then.<\/strong> I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.<\/strong> I was France.<\/strong> In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.<\/strong> In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?<\/strong> One does not arrest Voltaire.<\/strong> Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.<\/strong> A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.<\/strong> Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.<\/strong> In politics it is necessary either to betray one’s country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.<\/strong> 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.<\/strong> Never relinquish the initiative.<\/strong> No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.<\/strong> No nation has friends only interests.<\/strong> Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.<\/strong> Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.<\/strong> When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.<\/strong> You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.<\/strong> Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.<\/strong> Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.<\/strong> Don’t ask me who’s influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he’s digested, and I’ve been reading all my life.<\/strong> Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.<\/strong> For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.<\/strong> France cannot be France without greatness.<\/strong> You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.<\/strong> You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.<\/strong> You’ll live. Only the best get killed.<\/strong> France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.<\/strong> Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.<\/strong> 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.<\/strong> Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.<\/strong> The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.<\/strong> The graveyards are full of indispensable men.<\/strong> The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.<\/strong> The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.<\/strong> The sword is the axis of the world and its power is absolute.<\/strong> How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?<\/strong> I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.<\/strong> I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Metro.<\/strong> I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.<\/strong> I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.<\/strong> To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.<\/strong> We are not here to laugh.<\/strong> When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.<\/strong> You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.<\/strong> Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.<\/strong> Charles de Gaulle was the man seen by many French people to have been their true leader in World War Two. As a boy, Charles de Gaulle already showed a passionate interest in the military and was educated on the history of France and military operations at a young age. He chose a military career and served with distinction in World War One. Later, he was a French general and statesman, leader of the Free French during World War Two, and the architect of the Fifth Republic. His political ideology, ‘Gaullism’, has become a major influence in French politics. 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