Charles de Gaulle Quotes
27 Charles de Gaulle quotes:
"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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"For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her."
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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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"Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first."
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"The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs."
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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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"Treaties are like roses and young girls -- they last while they last"
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"No nation has friends only interests"
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"Old age is a shipwreck."
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"Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown"
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"I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French."
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"Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone."
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"Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends."
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"My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial."
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"Brave shoemakers, all gentlemen of the gentle craft."
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"Silence is the ultimate weapon of power."
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"Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own."
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"You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless."
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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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"The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects."
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