These people really aim very badly.
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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France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
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Old age is a shipwreck.
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No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
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In politics it is necessary either to betray one’s country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
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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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When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
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You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.
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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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Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.
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I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
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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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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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Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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