The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.
CHARLES DE GAULLEFrance has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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Character is the virtue of hard times.
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Leaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors.
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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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Never relinquish the initiative.
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The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
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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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Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
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One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
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You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
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Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
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Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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In politics it is necessary either to betray one’s country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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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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