All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
CHARLES DE GAULLEWe may go to the moon, but that’ s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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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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A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities.
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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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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
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France has no friends, only interests.
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Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
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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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Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents.
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Don’t ask me who’s influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he’s digested, and I’ve been reading all my life.
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One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
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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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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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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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