France has no friends, only interests.
CHARLES DE GAULLEThe future does not belong to men.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
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Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
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France was built with swords. The fleur-de-lis, symbol of national unity, is only the image of a spear with three pikes.
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Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
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I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.
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It’s impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
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In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
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Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.
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Old age is a shipwreck.
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I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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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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