I’m not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
CHARLES DE GAULLEIn order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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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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The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
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Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
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It 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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How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
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Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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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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In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
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You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
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Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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Old age is a shipwreck.
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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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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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I am not bad, thank you. But don’t worry, one of these days I shall certainly die.
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