My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
CHARLES DE GAULLEThe leader is always alone before bad fates.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
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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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Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
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To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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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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I wouldn’t mind dying for France, but not for Air 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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The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
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Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
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I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
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History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.
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One can unite the French only under the threat of danger. One cannot simply bring together a nation that produces 265 kinds of cheese.
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The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
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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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How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
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