Old age is a shipwreck.
CHARLES DE GAULLEI 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.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
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A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities.
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Never relinquish the initiative.
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For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
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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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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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For all of us Frenchmen, the guiding rule of our epoch is to be faithful to France.
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No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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I wouldn’t mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
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Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
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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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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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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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