Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
CHARLES DE GAULLECharacter is the virtue of hard times.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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Old age is a shipwreck.
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Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
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France cannot be France without greatness.
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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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To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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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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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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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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In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
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You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
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One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death.
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I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
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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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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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