My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
CHARLES DE GAULLEI feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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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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How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
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It’s better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.
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How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?
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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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You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
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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 country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.
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Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
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I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
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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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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death.
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History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.
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