In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
CHARLES DE GAULLEOld age is a shipwreck.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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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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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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Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.
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No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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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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Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.
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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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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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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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France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
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France cannot be France without greatness.
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It’s impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds 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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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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You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
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