I wouldn’t mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
CHARLES DE GAULLEThe leader is always alone before bad fates.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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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 glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
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Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
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Old age is a shipwreck.
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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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In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
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It’s better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.
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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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How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?
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How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
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Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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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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The future does not belong to men.
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The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
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The leader is always alone before bad fates.
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