I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
CHARLES DE GAULLEWhen I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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I’m not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
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The Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering.
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The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
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To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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It so happens that the world is undergoing a transformation to which no change that has yet occurred can be compared, either in scope or in rapidity.
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Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
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These people really aim very badly.
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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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A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
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Old age is a shipwreck.
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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
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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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It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.
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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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