Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
CHARLES DE GAULLECharacter is the virtue of hard times.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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France was built with swords. The fleur-de-lis, symbol of national unity, is only the image of a spear with three pikes.
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Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.
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It is better to have a bad method than to have none.
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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 politics it is necessary either to betray one’s country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
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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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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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There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
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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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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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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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I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
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I wouldn’t mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
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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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