De Gaulle:

But has the last word been said? Is all hope to be lost? Is the defeat final No! (Charles De Gaulle, French president)

But is the defeat already decided and victory hopeless? No, you can't say that! (French President Charles de Gaulle. C.)

Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (listen (help·info)) (22 November 1890 – 9 November 1970), in France commonly referred to as Général de Gaulle, was a French military leader and statesman.

Prior to World War II, he was primarily known as an armored warfare tactician and an advocate of the concentrated use of armored and aviation forces. During World War II, he reached the rank of Brigade General and then became the leader of the Free French government-in-exile and an anti-Nazi guerrilla leader. Between 1944 and 1946, following the liberation of France from German occupation, he was head of the French provisional government.

Called to form a government in 1958, he inspired a new constitution and was the Fifth Republic's first president, serving from 1958 to 1969. His political ideology is known as Gaullism, and it has been a major influence in subsequent French politics