It’s impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
CHARLES DE GAULLEOnce 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.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents.
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Character is the virtue of hard times.
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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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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
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No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
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Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.
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The future does not belong to men.
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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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Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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Whereas ordinary officers must be content with behaving correctly in front of their men, the great leaders have always carefully stage-managed their effects.
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He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
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I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
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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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France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
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