Famous quotes containing the words charles de gaulle, government, january, june, gaulle and/or charles:
“One does not arrest Voltaire.”
—Charles De Gaulle (18901970)
“We have passed the time of ... the laisser-faire [sic] school which believes that the government ought to do nothing but run a police force.”
—William Howard Taft (18571930)
“Here lies interred in the eternity of the past, from whence there is no resurrection for the dayswhatever there may be for the dustthe thirty-third year of an ill-spent life, which, after a lingering disease of many months sank into a lethargy, and expired, January 22d, 1821, A.D. leaving a successor inconsolable for the very loss which occasioned its existence.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (17881824)
“In June the bush we call
alder was heavy, listless,
its leaves studded with galls,
growing wherever we didnt
want it.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
“No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.”
—Charles De Gaulle (18901970)
“Im down here all alone, but as happy as a kingat least, as happy as some kingsat any rate, I should think Im about as happy as King Charles the First when he was in prison.”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (18321898)