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 GAULLEBetting 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.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
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To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities.
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When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
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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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Character is the virtue of hard times.
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France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
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All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
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You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.
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It’s better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.
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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.
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Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
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These people really aim very badly.
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We may go to the moon, but that’ s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.
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