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.

Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.

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