The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.
CHARLES DE GAULLEThese people really aim very badly.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
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Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.
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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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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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The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
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France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
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How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
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Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents.
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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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To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
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I’m not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
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Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
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France has no friends, only interests.
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Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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