Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
CHARLES DE GAULLEI have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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In politics it is necessary either to betray one’s country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
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No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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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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In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
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Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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It’s impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
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One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
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Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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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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For all of us Frenchmen, the guiding rule of our epoch is to be faithful to France.
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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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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
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When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.
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All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
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