Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
CHARLES DE GAULLEOld age is a shipwreck.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.
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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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Hearing Mass is the ceremony I most favor during my travels. Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.
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The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
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France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
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There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
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I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
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All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
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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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Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
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Betting against gold is the same as betting on governments. He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history.
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One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
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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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Only peril can bring the French together. One can’t impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.
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