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 GAULLEThe future does not belong to men.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
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I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
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You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
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My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
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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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How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
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It’s impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
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How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?
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When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.
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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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Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.
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Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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