Famous quotes containing the words charles de, gaulle, politics and/or grandeur:
“Now she’s like everyone else.”
—Charles De Gaulle (1890–1970)
“France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war!”
—Charles De Gaulle (1890–1970)
“Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.”
—Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870–1924)
“There is a grandeur in the uniformity of the mass. When a fashion, a dance, a song, a slogan or a joke sweeps like wildfire from one end of the continent to the other, and a hundred million people roar with laughter, sway their bodies in unison, hum one song or break forth in anger and denunciation, there is the overpowering feeling that in this country we have come nearer the brotherhood of man than ever before.”
—Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)