The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.
CHARLES DE GAULLE
For all of us Frenchmen, the guiding rule of our epoch is to be faithful to France.
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The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.
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Betting against gold is the same as betting on governments. He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history.
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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
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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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I am not bad, thank you. But don’t worry, one of these days I shall certainly die.
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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.
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Don’t think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
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Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents.
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I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
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Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
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Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
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Old age is a shipwreck.
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You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.
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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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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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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
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