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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.
Charles de Gaulle
I might have had trouble saving France in 1946 - I didn't have television then.
Charles de Gaulle
I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
Charles de Gaulle
I was France.
Charles de Gaulle
In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
Charles de Gaulle
In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
Charles de Gaulle
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?
Charles de Gaulle
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.
Charles de Gaulle
Never relinquish the initiative.
Charles de Gaulle
No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
Charles de Gaulle
No nation has friends only interests.
Charles de Gaulle
Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
Charles de Gaulle
Old age is a shipwreck.
Charles de Gaulle
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.
Charles de Gaulle
One cannot govern with 'buts'.
Charles de Gaulle
One does not arrest Voltaire.
Charles De Gaulle
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.
Charles de Gaulle
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
Charles de Gaulle
Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Charles de Gaulle
Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
Charles de Gaulle
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