Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.
CHARLES DE GAULLEI’m not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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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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My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
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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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You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.
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I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
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I’m not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
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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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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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Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.
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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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Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
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France cannot be France without greatness.
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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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All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
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