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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.

Charles de Gaulle

The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Build Ego Hard Perfection Pride
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
The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Judgement Leadership Narrow Ordinary People
How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Country Food Himself System Variety
Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Character Difficult Fulfill Himself Man
To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Advantage Choice Government
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.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Gold Government History Human Money Record
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
I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Belong Deep Man Myself
These people really aim very badly.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Bad Goal People
The Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Confidence Domination Elite People Time
We may go to the moon, but that’ s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Discover Distance Far Greatness Lying Moon
How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Different Food Government Kind Nation Rule
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 GAULLE

Build Image Nation Sword
Only peril can bring the French together. One can’t impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Country Different Funny Oneself Togetherness Unity
When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Angry Myself Right Time Wrong

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