Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that’s the way he shows his passion for equality.
CHARLES DE GAULLEDon’t ask me who’s influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he’s digested, and I’ve been reading all my life.
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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I’m not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
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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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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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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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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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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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France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
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I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
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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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When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
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He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
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To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
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Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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