I’m not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
CHARLES DE GAULLEThe desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
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No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
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Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.
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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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The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
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Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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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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How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?
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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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No, I’m not talking about the Russians; I mean the Germans. In spite of everything, to have pushed so far!
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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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It is better to have a bad method than to have none.
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