Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
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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One can unite the French only under the threat of danger. One cannot simply bring together a nation that produces 265 kinds of cheese.
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Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
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The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
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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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All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
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Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
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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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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
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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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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 wouldn’t mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
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The future does not belong to men.
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The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
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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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It’s better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.
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