„Wie wollen Sie ein Volk regieren, das 246 Käsesorten besitzt?“
— Charles de Gaulle
zitiert bei Hans O. Staub: De Gaulle - Träumer oder Idealist. Bucher 1966, S. 60 books. google
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Charles de Gaulle
Geburtstag: 22. November 1890
Todesdatum: 9. November 1970
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Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle war ein französischer General und Staatsmann. Im Zweiten Weltkrieg führte er den Widerstand des Freien Frankreich gegen die deutsche Besatzung an. Danach war er von 1944 bis 1946 Chef der Provisorischen Regierung. Im Zuge des Algerienkriegs wurde er 1958 mit der Bildung einer Regierung beauftragt und setzte eine Verfassungsreform durch, mit der die Fünfte Republik begründet wurde, deren Präsident er von Januar 1959 bis April 1969 war. Die auf ihn zurückgehende politische Ideologie des Gaullismus beeinflusst die französische Politik bis heute.
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„Europe, from the Atlantic to the Urals“
— Charles de Gaulle
Context: Yes, it is Europe, from the Atlantic to the Urals, it is Europe, it is the whole of Europe, that will decide the fate of the world.
Oui, c'est l'Europe, depuis l'Atlantique jusqu'à l'Oural, c'est toute l'Europe, qui décidera du destin du monde.
23 November 1959, Strasbourg. The phrase shown in bold is the most often quoted excerpt. De Gaulle was expressing his vision of Europe's future.
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„Character is the virtue of hard times.“
— Charles de Gaulle
Le caractère, vertu des temps difficiles.
in Le fil de l’épée.
„Present at Casablanca but excluded from every talk that mattered was Charles de Gaulle. No one seemed to know quite what to do with him. But before the conference was over, his differences with the Allies had been patched up somewhat, and his future role had been much clarified.“
— Charles de Gaulle
C.L. Sulzberger, in his book The American Heritage Picture History of World War II (1966), p. 317
„France cannot be France without greatness.“
— Charles de Gaulle
La France ne peut être la France sans la grandeur.
in Mémoires de guerre.
„Of course one can jump up and down yelling Europe! Europe! Europe! But it amounts to nothing and it means nothing.“
— Charles de Gaulle
Bien entendu, on peut sauter sur sa chaise comme un cabri en disant l’Europe ! l’Europe ! l’Europe ! mais cela n’aboutit à rien et cela ne signifie rien.
Interview on a presidential campaign, December 1965 [http://www.ina.fr/archivespourtous/index.php?vue=notice&id_notice=I00012536 INA archive of the video] (De Gaulle meant that he wanted to build a European Union on realities, i.e. the existing nation-states with their respective interests – not on slogans and abstractions)
„Let us be firm, pure and faithful; at the end of our sorrow, there is the greatest glory of the world, that of the men who did not give in.“
— Charles de Gaulle
Soyons fermes, purs et fidèles ; au bout de nos peines, il y a la plus grande gloire du monde, celle des hommes qui n'ont pas cédé.
Speech, July 14 1943.
„Why do you think that at 67 I would start a career as a dictator?“
— Charles de Gaulle
Pourquoi voulez-vous qu'à 67 ans je commence une carrière de dictateur ?
Press conference, May 19 1958 (De Gaulle was changing the constitution to make government more efficient, after decades of impotent parliamentary regime, and he mocked journalists who claimed he was establishing a dictatorship).
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„The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.“
— Charles de Gaulle
Le désir du privilège et le goût de l'égalité, passions dominantes et contradictoires des Français de toute époque.
in La France et son armée.
„Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.“
— Charles de Gaulle
La politique, quand elle est un art et un service, non point une exploitation, c'est une action pour un idéal à travers des réalités.
Press conference, June 30 1955
„Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.“
— Charles de Gaulle
Les hommes peuvent avoir des amis, pas les hommes d'Etat.
Interview, December 9 1967.
„At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.“
— Charles de Gaulle
A la base de notre civilisation, il y a la liberté de chacun dans sa pensée, ses croyances, ses opinions, son travail, ses loisirs.
Speech, November 25 1941.
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„It is unnecessary, for the Republic has never ceased to exist. I was the Republic.“
— Charles de Gaulle
Reply in August 1944 to a statement of regret that the windows of the Hotel de Ville in Paris were not opened for the crowd outside cheering the reestablishment of the Republic. Quoted in The Atlantic, November 1960.
„Nothing great is done without great men, and they are great because they wanted it.“
— Charles de Gaulle
On ne fait rien de grand sans de grands hommes, et ceux-ci le sont pour l'avoir voulu.
in Vers l’armée de métier.
„The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.“
— Charles de Gaulle
Reported in the National Review (November 1962) as a misattribution created by extreme rightists. See Paul F. Boller, John George, They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, and Misleading Attributions (1990), p. 33.
