You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.
CHARLES DE GAULLEFrance cannot be France without greatness.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.
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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death.
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Never relinquish the initiative.
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It is better to have a bad method than to have none.
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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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Old age is a shipwreck.
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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
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History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.
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France has no friends, only interests.
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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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He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
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Hearing Mass is the ceremony I most favor during my travels. Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.
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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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