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Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that’s the way he shows his passion for equality.

Charles de Gaulle

Leaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Achievement Endeavour Leadership Remember
Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Authority Distance Work
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.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Myself Past Prevent Return
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.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Compare Rapid Scope Transformation World
France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Battle France Herself Lost War
At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Civilization Freedom Leisure Root Work
Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Climate Diplomat Rain
It is better to have a bad method than to have none.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Bad Better
I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Decision Harmony Myself View
The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Desire Domination Passion Privilege Time
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 GAULLE

Country Habit Marriage Old Time
For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Dreams Glory Herself
When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Angry Myself Right Time Wrong
I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Myself Resistance Respect Tolerance
Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Action Function Oneself
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.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Favor Myself Talk Travel

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