For all of us Frenchmen, the guiding rule of our epoch is to be faithful to France.
CHARLES DE GAULLEThe leader is always alone before bad fates.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that’s the way he shows his passion for equality.
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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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When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.
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France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
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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, I’m not talking about the Russians; I mean the Germans. In spite of everything, to have pushed so far!
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The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.
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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 am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
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A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.
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Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
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In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
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Never relinquish the initiative.
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For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
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No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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Only peril can bring the French together. One can’t impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.
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Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
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Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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France has no friends, only interests.
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These people really aim very badly.
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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
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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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Character is the virtue of hard times.
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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
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Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents.
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Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.
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