Charles de Gaulle quotes - page 4

Anything can happen someday, even that an act conforming to honour and honesty can end up, at the end of the line, as a good political decision. (Charles de Gaulle)
So, it is true that one's homeland is entirely human, emotional and that it is the root of action, of authority, of responsibility from which one can build Europe. What elements? Well, [nation] States, because only States are valid, are legitimate, in this respect, in addition they are capable of... As I have already said and I repeat, that at the present time, there cannot be any other Europe than that of the States, apart of course from myths, fictions, parades. From this solidarity depends all hope of uniting Europe in the political field and in the field of defense, as in the economic field. From this solidarity depends, therefore, the destiny of Europe as a whole, from the Atlantic to the Urals.
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Now she is like everyone else.
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I have understood you!
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Man, limited by his nature, is infinite in his desires.
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When we were children, we often played war. We had a fine collection of lead soldiers. My brothers would take different countries: Xavier had Italy; Pierre, Germany. Or they would swap around. Well, I, gentlemen, always had France.
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Nothing great is done without great men, and they are great because they wanted it.
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Let us be firm, pure and faithful; at the end of our sorrow, there is the greatest glory of the world, that of the men who did not give in.
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It is unnecessary, for the Republic has never ceased to exist. I was the Republic.
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Only peril can bring the French together. One can't impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.
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We are not here to laugh. (Charles de Gaulle)
I was France.
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I might have had trouble saving France in 1946 - I didn't have television then.
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I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Metro.
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Of course one can jump up and down yelling Europe ! Europe ! Europe ! But it amounts to nothing and it means nothing.
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Do you know that you have caused us more trouble than all the rest of our European allies?" "I do not doubt it. France is a great power.
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A foreign military leader whose daring was feared by those who profited by it." De Gaulle said that MacArthur's critics should "pay deserved tribute to the legendary service of a great soldier.
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Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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Don't think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
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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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Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential. (Charles de Gaulle)
He who laughs last didn't get the joke.
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A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities.
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I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money.
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I wouldn't mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
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