Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that’s the way he shows his passion for equality.
CHARLES DE GAULLEThese people really aim very badly.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
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Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents.
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France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
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Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.
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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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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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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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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
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I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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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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It’s impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
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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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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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