I wouldn’t mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
CHARLES DE GAULLEThe leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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It’s better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.
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My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
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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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How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
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In politics it is necessary either to betray one’s country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
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Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
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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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In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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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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For all of us Frenchmen, the guiding rule of our epoch is to be faithful to France.
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France cannot be France without greatness.
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The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
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Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
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Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
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