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.
CHARLES DE GAULLEAlways choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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It’s impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
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Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.
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I wouldn’t mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
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He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
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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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The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
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One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
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All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
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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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It is better to have a bad method than to have none.
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Don’t ask me who’s influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he’s digested, and I’ve been reading all my life.
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A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
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In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
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It so happens that the world is undergoing a transformation to which no change that has yet occurred can be compared, either in scope or in rapidity.
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