Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
CHARLES DE GAULLEIn order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
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No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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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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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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At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.
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You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.
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France was built with swords. The fleur-de-lis, symbol of national unity, is only the image of a spear with three pikes.
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In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
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I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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These people really aim very badly.
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Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.
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In the tumult of great events, solitude was what I hoped for. Now it is what I love. How is it possible to be contented with anything else when one has come face to face with history?
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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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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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