Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
CHARLES DE GAULLEFaced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
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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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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I’m not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
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Don’t think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
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Old age is a shipwreck.
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I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
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When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
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The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
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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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How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
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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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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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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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You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
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One can unite the French only under the threat of danger. One cannot simply bring together a nation that produces 265 kinds of cheese.
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The future does not belong to men.
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Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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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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When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.
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A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.
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Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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France has no friends, only interests.
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Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
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Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that’s the way he shows his passion for equality.
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I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
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A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
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