France was built with swords. The fleur-de-lis, symbol of national unity, is only the image of a spear with three pikes.
CHARLES DE GAULLEFaced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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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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Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents.
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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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All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.
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It’s better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.
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Betting against gold is the same as betting on governments. He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history.
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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?
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France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
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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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There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
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When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
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A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.
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You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.
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The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
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Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.
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Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.
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One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
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It is better to have a bad method than to have none.
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He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
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One can unite the French only under the threat of danger. One cannot simply bring together a nation that produces 265 kinds of cheese.
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Old age is a shipwreck.
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To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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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.
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