I wouldn’t mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
CHARLES DE GAULLEIt’s better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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Leaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors.
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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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All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
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One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
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I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
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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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Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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The leader is always alone before bad fates.
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Don’t ask me who’s influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he’s digested, and I’ve been reading all my life.
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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.
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Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.
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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?
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The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
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A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities.
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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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