Whatever happens, the flame of the French resistance must not be extinguished and will not be extinguished. Tomorrow, as today, I will speak on Radio London.
CHARLES DE GAULLEAuthority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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I am not bad, thank you. But don’t worry, one of these days I shall certainly die.
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Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
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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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At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.
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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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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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I’m not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
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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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To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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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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I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
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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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Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
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