No, I’m not talking about the Russians; I mean the Germans. In spite of everything, to have pushed so far!
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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Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
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Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
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Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
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Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
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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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Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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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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France cannot be France without greatness.
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It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.
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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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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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It’s better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.
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The future does not belong to men.
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