Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
CHARLES DE GAULLETreaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.
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Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.
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He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
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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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I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
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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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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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Old age is a shipwreck.
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I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.
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Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.
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The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
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You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.
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