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I’m not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.

Charles de Gaulle

For all of us Frenchmen, the guiding rule of our epoch is to be faithful to France.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Faith France Guide Rule
Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Climate Diplomat Rain
Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Achievement Determination Greatness Myself
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.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Death Hero Humanity Possible Sacrifice Tolerance
Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that’s the way he shows his passion for equality.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Enjoyment Equality Himself Passion Privilege
Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Art Ideal Politics Reality Service
All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Ideas Life Myself
You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Generosity Skin Soul Start Yourself
A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Alone Country Friendship Greatness Name Worth
Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Action Function Oneself
Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Greatness Leadership Unknown
A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Breathe Element Excitement Leadership Public Surprise True
The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Desire Domination Passion Privilege Time
In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Paid Policy Risk War
No, I’m not talking about the Russians; I mean the Germans. In spite of everything, to have pushed so far!
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Business Myself Talk
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?
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Face Greatness History Hope Love

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