For all of us Frenchmen, the guiding rule of our epoch is to be faithful to France.
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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The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
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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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It’s impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
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He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
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Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents.
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I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
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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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Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
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Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.
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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 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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No, I’m not talking about the Russians; I mean the Germans. In spite of everything, to have pushed so far!
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I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
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No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
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Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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Don’t think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
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It is better to have a bad method than to have none.
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Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
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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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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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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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No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.
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Character is the virtue of hard times.
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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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