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 GAULLEMen are of no importance. What counts is who commands.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
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It is better to have a bad method than to have none.
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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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When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
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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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The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
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The leader is always alone before bad fates.
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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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You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.
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I wouldn’t mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
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Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
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How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
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No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.
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