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.
CHARLES DE GAULLEI am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
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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Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.
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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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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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Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.
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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
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When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
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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 desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.
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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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The Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering.
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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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Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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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 leader is always alone before bad fates.
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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
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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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I wouldn’t mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
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I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.
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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 heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
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Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.
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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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There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
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France was built with swords. The fleur-de-lis, symbol of national unity, is only the image of a spear with three pikes.
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