When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
CHARLES DE GAULLEThe better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.
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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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How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?
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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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The leader is always alone before bad fates.
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The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
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Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.
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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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Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
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Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that’s the way he shows his passion for equality.
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The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
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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.
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Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents.
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In politics it is necessary either to betray one’s country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
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I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
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