For all of us Frenchmen, the guiding rule of our epoch is to be faithful to France.
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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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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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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One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
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I am not bad, thank you. But don’t worry, one of these days I shall certainly die.
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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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France cannot be France without greatness.
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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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It’s impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
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How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?
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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
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Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
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I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
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Leaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors.
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Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
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The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
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