The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
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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My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
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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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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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I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.
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Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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Betting against gold is the same as betting on governments. He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history.
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A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.
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In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?
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Old age is a shipwreck.
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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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It’s impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
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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 better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
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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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Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.
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