Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that’s the way he shows his passion for equality.
CHARLES DE GAULLEIn 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?
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents.
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It is better to have a bad method than to have none.
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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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Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.
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When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
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Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
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The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
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For all of us Frenchmen, the guiding rule of our epoch is to be faithful to France.
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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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At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.
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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
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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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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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It’s impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
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