France cannot be France without greatness.
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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No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
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Only peril can bring the French together. One can’t impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.
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Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
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I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
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I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
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No, I’m not talking about the Russians; I mean the Germans. In spite of everything, to have pushed so far!
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I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
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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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The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.
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