At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.
CHARLES DE GAULLEHow can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
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He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
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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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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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The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
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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 men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?
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These people really aim very badly.
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The future does not belong to men.
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It so happens that the world is undergoing a transformation to which no change that has yet occurred can be compared, either in scope or in rapidity.
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France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
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No, I’m not talking about the Russians; I mean the Germans. In spite of everything, to have pushed so far!
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I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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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 am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
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