One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
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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It’s impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
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Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
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For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
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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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Character is the virtue of hard times.
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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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I wouldn’t mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
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Once 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.
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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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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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Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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It is better to have a bad method than to have none.
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You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
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France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
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I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
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