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?
CHARLES DE GAULLEFrance has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
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It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.
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Old age is a shipwreck.
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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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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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All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
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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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France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
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I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.
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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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How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?
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The Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering.
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Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.
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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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I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
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