Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
CHARLES DE GAULLEIt so happens that the world is undergoing a transformation to which no change that has yet occurred can be compared, either in scope or in rapidity.
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No, I’m not talking about the Russians; I mean the Germans. In spite of everything, to have pushed so far!
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It 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.
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Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents.
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One can unite the French only under the threat of danger. One cannot simply bring together a nation that produces 265 kinds of cheese.
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There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
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At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.
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I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.
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In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
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I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
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For all of us Frenchmen, the guiding rule of our epoch is to be faithful to France.
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How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
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Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.
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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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Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
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He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
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