All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
CHARLES DE GAULLEI wouldn’t mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.
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When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
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The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
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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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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?
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Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
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The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
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Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
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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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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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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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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.
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France cannot be France without greatness.
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Character is the virtue of hard times.
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