Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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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Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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I wouldn’t mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
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I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
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Whatever happens, the flame of the French resistance must not be extinguished and will not be extinguished. Tomorrow, as today, I will speak on Radio London.
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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
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When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
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No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
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For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
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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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A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
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It is better to have a bad method than to have none.
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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
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My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
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I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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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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