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France cannot be France without greatness.

Charles de Gaulle

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I’m not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Embarrassment Myself Revolution
Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Authority Build Shelter Silence Strong Weakness
The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Communism Evolution Inevitable
Leaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Achievement Endeavour Leadership Remember
Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Achievement Determination Greatness Myself
The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Death Grave Man
I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Myself Past Prevent Return
For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Dreams Glory Herself
Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Believe Himself Politics Quite Word
In politics it is necessary either to betray one’s country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Betrayal Country Election Necessary Politics
You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Generosity Skin Soul Start Yourself
In the tumult of great events, solitude was what I hoped for. Now it is what I love. How is it possible to be contented with anything else when one has come face to face with history?
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Face Greatness History Hope Love
He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Dumb Himself Joke Laughter
We may go to the moon, but that’ s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Discover Distance Far Greatness Lying Moon
You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Adapt Fast Strategy Yourself
France was built with swords. The fleur-de-lis, symbol of national unity, is only the image of a spear with three pikes.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Build Image Nation Sword
These people really aim very badly.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Bad Goal People
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Love Nation Patriot People Yourself
No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Country Independent
At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Civilization Freedom Leisure Root Work
In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?
CHARLES DE GAULLE

History Man Myself Satisfaction Solitude Temptation Yourself
Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Agreement Girl Last Rose Young
When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Angry Myself Right Time Wrong
France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Battle France Herself Lost War
Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Command Count Importance Man
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.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Day Flame Myself Resistance Talk
One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Governement Oneself

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