History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.
CHARLES DE GAULLEYou start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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It’s impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
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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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Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents.
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You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
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France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
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Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
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Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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I’m not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
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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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In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
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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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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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Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
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One can unite the French only under the threat of danger. One cannot simply bring together a nation that produces 265 kinds of cheese.
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I wouldn’t mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
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