At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.
CHARLES DE GAULLEBetting 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.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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The Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering.
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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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A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
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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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The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
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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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I wouldn’t mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
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I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
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Don’t ask me who’s influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he’s digested, and I’ve been reading all my life.
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I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.
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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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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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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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When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
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