Old age is a shipwreck.
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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Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
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Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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France has no friends, only interests.
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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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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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The Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering.
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He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
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I’m not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
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There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
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To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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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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Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
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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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For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
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At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.
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