My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
CHARLES DE GAULLETo govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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The future does not belong to men.
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For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
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I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
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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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Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
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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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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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It’s impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
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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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I’m not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
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These people really aim very badly.
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I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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It’s better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.
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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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Don’t think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
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