More From Charles de Gaulle
- "Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so."
- "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?"
- "In politics it is necessary either to betray one’s country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate."
More In Power
- "Unlimited power corrupts the possessor."― William Pitt
- "My kid could get a bad X-ray and I could get a call from the doctor saying I have something growing in my bum and that would change my perspective on everything instantaneously, on what is and what is not important."― Tom Hanks
- "You only have power over people so long as you don’t take everything away from them. But when you’ve robbed a man of everything, he’s no longer in your power – he’s free again."― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn