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.
CHARLES DE GAULLEAt the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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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 by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
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Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
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I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
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Never relinquish the initiative.
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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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Character is the virtue of hard times.
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How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
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Don’t ask me who’s influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he’s digested, and I’ve been reading all my life.
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Don’t think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
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The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.
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Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that’s the way he shows his passion for equality.
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It is better to have a bad method than to have none.
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No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
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