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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More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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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 come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
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Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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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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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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Whereas ordinary officers must be content with behaving correctly in front of their men, the great leaders have always carefully stage-managed their effects.
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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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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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Don’t think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
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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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Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents.
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The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
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The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.
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We may go to the moon, but that’ s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.
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A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
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