The Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering.
CHARLES DE GAULLEOne can unite the French only under the threat of danger. One cannot simply bring together a nation that produces 265 kinds of cheese.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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No, I’m not talking about the Russians; I mean the Germans. In spite of everything, to have pushed so far!
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A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
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Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.
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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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Whereas ordinary officers must be content with behaving correctly in front of their men, the great leaders have always carefully stage-managed their effects.
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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
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Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents.
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I wouldn’t mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
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Hearing Mass is the ceremony I most favor during my travels. Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.
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In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
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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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Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
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A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.
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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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