Charles de Gaulle Zitate – Sprüche auf Englisch mit Übersetzung

Zitat des Tages von Charles de Gaulle:

To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.

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

Charles de Gaulle

Never relinquish the initiative.

Charles de Gaulle

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

Charles de Gaulle

The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.

Charles de Gaulle

You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.

Charles de Gaulle

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

Charles de Gaulle

One does not arrest Voltaire.

Charles de Gaulle

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

Charles de Gaulle

The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.

Charles de Gaulle

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.

Charles de Gaulle

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.

Charles de Gaulle

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Charles de Gaulle

One cannot govern with 'buts'.

Charles de Gaulle

China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese.

Charles de Gaulle

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

Charles de Gaulle

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.

Charles de Gaulle

We are not here to laugh.

Charles de Gaulle

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

Charles de Gaulle

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

Charles de Gaulle

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

Charles de Gaulle

No nation has friends only interests.

Charles de Gaulle

To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.

Charles de Gaulle

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.

Charles de Gaulle

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

Charles de Gaulle

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.

Charles de Gaulle

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

Charles de Gaulle

Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance.

Charles de Gaulle

Old age is a shipwreck.

Charles de Gaulle

I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.

Charles de Gaulle

You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.

Charles de Gaulle

Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses; they last while they last.

Charles de Gaulle

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Charles de Gaulle

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

Charles de Gaulle

A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.

Charles de Gaulle

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?

Charles de Gaulle

There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.

Charles de Gaulle