My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
CHARLES DE GAULLEIn war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
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Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.
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Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
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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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There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
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Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
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You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
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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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In politics it is necessary either to betray one’s country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
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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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For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
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I wouldn’t mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
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In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?
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France cannot be France without greatness.
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