The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.
CHARLES DE GAULLEWhen I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
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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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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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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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I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
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I wouldn’t mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
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I’m not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
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Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
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Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
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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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France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
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The leader is always alone before bad fates.
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Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
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He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
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