When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
CHARLES DE GAULLEEvery Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that’s the way he shows his passion for equality.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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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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The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.
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Whatever happens, the flame of the French resistance must not be extinguished and will not be extinguished. Tomorrow, as today, I will speak on Radio London.
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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.
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I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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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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I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
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I wouldn’t mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
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The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
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One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death.
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To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
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France has no friends, only interests.
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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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