I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.
CHARLES DE GAULLEAt 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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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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France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
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No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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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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Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
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Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.
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You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
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The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.
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When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
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We may go to the moon, but that’ s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.
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All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
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Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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For all of us Frenchmen, the guiding rule of our epoch is to be faithful to France.
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One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
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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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