France was built with swords. The fleur-de-lis, symbol of national unity, is only the image of a spear with three pikes.
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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Never relinquish the initiative.
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These people really aim very badly.
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France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
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I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.
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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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One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death.
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Old age is a shipwreck.
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I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
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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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Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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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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I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
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Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.
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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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It’s better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.
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No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
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One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
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I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
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Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
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The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.
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We may go to the moon, but that’ s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.
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I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
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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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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
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