The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.
CHARLES DE GAULLEIt is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.
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Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.
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I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
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Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.
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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
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In the tumult of great events, solitude was what I hoped for. Now it is what I love. How is it possible to be contented with anything else when one has come face to face with history?
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The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.
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France was built with swords. The fleur-de-lis, symbol of national unity, is only the image of a spear with three pikes.
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These people really aim very badly.
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We may go to the moon, but that’ s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.
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France has no friends, only interests.
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When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
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I am not bad, thank you. But don’t worry, one of these days I shall certainly die.
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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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