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 GAULLENo policy is worth anything outside of reality.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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The Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering.
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Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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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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I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.
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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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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.
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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.
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Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.
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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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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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The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
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The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.
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Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
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For all of us Frenchmen, the guiding rule of our epoch is to be faithful to France.
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