I wouldn’t mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
CHARLES DE GAULLEI feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
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No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
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No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
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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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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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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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Hearing Mass is the ceremony I most favor during my travels. Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.
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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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The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
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Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
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It’s better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.
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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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In the tumult of great events, solitude was what I hoped for. Now it is what I love. How is it possible to be contented with anything else when one has come face to face with history?
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A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
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