At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.
CHARLES DE GAULLEI’m not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
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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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How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
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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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When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
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Character is the virtue of hard times.
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These people really aim very badly.
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Leaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors.
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In politics it is necessary either to betray one’s country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
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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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For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
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The Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering.
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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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Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
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