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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.
Charles de GaulleCharles de Gaulle All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
Charles de GaulleCharles de Gaulle You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
Charles de GaulleCharles de Gaulle Don’t think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
Charles de GaulleCharles de Gaulle Never relinquish the initiative.
Charles de GaulleCharles de Gaulle How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
Charles de GaulleCharles de Gaulle Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.
Charles de GaulleCharles de Gaulle No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
Charles de GaulleCharles de Gaulle France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
Charles de GaulleCharles de Gaulle History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.
Charles de GaulleCharles de Gaulle Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
Charles de GaulleCharles de Gaulle Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that’s the way he shows his passion for equality.
Charles de GaulleCharles de Gaulle Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
Charles de GaulleCharles de Gaulle The leader is always alone before bad fates.
Charles de GaulleCharles de Gaulle In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
Charles de GaulleCharles de Gaulle Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents.
Charles de GaulleCharles de Gaulle
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