Charles de Gaulle/1946-58 - Out of Power

Famous quotes containing the words gaulle and/or power:

    “Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.”
    —Charles De Gaulle (1890–1970)

    “In our governments the real power lies in the majority of the community, and the invasion of private rights is chiefly to be apprehended, not from the acts of government contrary to the sense of the constituents, but from the acts in which government is the mere instrument of the majority.”
    —James Madison (1751–1836)