When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
CHARLES DE GAULLEFrance was built with swords. The fleur-de-lis, symbol of national unity, is only the image of a spear with three pikes.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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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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How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
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These people really aim very badly.
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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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In the tumult of great events, solitude was what I hoped for. Now it is what I love. How is it possible to be contented with anything else when one has come face to face with history?
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Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
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He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
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The future does not belong to men.
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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.
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Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
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All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
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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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For all of us Frenchmen, the guiding rule of our epoch is to be faithful to France.
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There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
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France cannot be France without greatness.
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