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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.


Charles de Gaulle

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CHARLES DE GAULLE Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
CHARLES DE GAULLE My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
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CHARLES DE GAULLE France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war.
CHARLES DE GAULLE Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
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CHARLES DE GAULLE The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
CHARLES DE GAULLE In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
CHARLES DE GAULLE I respect only those who resist me; but I cannot tolerate them.
CHARLES DE GAULLE Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains, they drown in every drop.
CHARLES DE GAULLE For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
CHARLES DE GAULLE Treaties are like roses and young girls -- they last while they last
CHARLES DE GAULLE Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
CHARLES DE GAULLE Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.
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CHARLES DE GAULLE Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
CHARLES DE GAULLE I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
CHARLES DE GAULLE The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people...
CHARLES DE GAULLE You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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CHARLES DE GAULLE You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally ...
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CHARLES DE GAULLE Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses; they last while they last.
CHARLES DE GAULLE A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which...
CHARLES DE GAULLE The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.
CHARLES DE GAULLE You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that...
CHARLES DE GAULLE How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
CHARLES DE GAULLE Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
CHARLES DE GAULLE The sword is the axis of the world and its power is absolute.
CHARLES DE GAULLE Never relinquish the initiative.
CHARLES DE GAULLE France cannot be France without greatness.
CHARLES DE GAULLE Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
CHARLES DE GAULLE Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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CHARLES DE GAULLE You'll live. Only the best get killed.
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CHARLES DE GAULLE A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips...
CHARLES DE GAULLE No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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CHARLES DE GAULLE The perfection preached in the Gospels never yet built up an empire. Every man of action has a stron...
CHARLES DE GAULLE How can one conceive of a one party system in a country that has over 200 varieties of cheese.
CHARLES DE GAULLE How can you be expected to govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese?
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CHARLES DE GAULLE Old age is a shipwreck.
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CHARLES DE GAULLE To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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CHARLES DE GAULLE The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
CHARLES DE GAULLE A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
CHARLES DE GAULLE Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
CHARLES DE GAULLE I might have had trouble saving France in 1946-I didn't have television then.
CHARLES DE GAULLE I was France.
CHARLES DE GAULLE To add to golden numbers, golden numbers.
CHARLES DE GAULLE The church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back
CHARLES DE GAULLE I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
CHARLES DE GAULLE How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of chees...
CHARLES DE GAULLE Only peril can bring the French together. One can't impose unity out of the blue on a country that h...
CHARLES DE GAULLE China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese.
CHARLES DE GAULLE France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
CHARLES DE GAULLE The national task that had been incumbent upon me for 18 years is hereby confirmed.
CHARLES DE GAULLE I always thought I was Jeanne d'Arc and Bonaparte. How little one knows oneself.
CHARLES DE GAULLE I have come to the conclusions that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
CHARLES DE GAULLE Honest labour bears a lovely face.
CHARLES DE GAULLE You'll live. Only the best get killed.
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CHARLES DE GAULLE I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I canno...
CHARLES DE GAULLE Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.
CHARLES DE GAULLE The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
CHARLES DE GAULLE I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
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CHARLES DE GAULLE France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war! (Proclamation, 18 June 1940)
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CHARLES DE GAULLE Nothing more advances authority than silence.
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CHARLES DE GAULLE The presidency is temporary-but the family is permanent.
YVONNE DE GAULLE Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU The less men think, the more they talk.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU If triangles had a god, they would give him three sides.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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CHARLES DE LINT Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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CHARLES DE LINT Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything we...
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CHARLES DE LEUSSE Shoe strangles the foot. But it advances. (La chaussure étrangle le pied. - Mais elle fait avancer)
CHARLES DE LEUSSE Close the door by leaving." Close the mouth by dying ... ("Ferme la porte en partant." - Ferme la bo...
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CHARLES DE LEUSSE Revenge tightens the heart as much as the jaw. (La vengeance serre le cœur - Autant que la mâchoir...
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CHARLES DE SECONDAT There are few joys to compare with the telling of a well-told tale.
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CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Historians conquer the past, not the future. (Les historiens conquièrent - Le passé, non l'avenir)
CHARLES DE LEUSSE Weak minds exaggerate too much the wrong done to the Africans.
CHARLES DE SECONDAT The waves lie down on the beach; Your hair on your back of angel. (Les vagues s’allongent sur la p...
CHARLES DE LEUSSE The medals of the dead heroes are the coins for the future. (Les médailles des héros morts - Sont ...
CHARLES DE LEUSSE Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenti...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Rail longer than train cars ; and the hope than our reasons. (Rail plus long que les wagons ; - Et l...
CHARLES DE LEUSSE Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the politic...
CHARLES DE SECONDAT Dinosaurs were big ; likewise, their bones. (Dinosaures furent grands ; - De même, leurs ossements....
CHARLES DE LEUSSE The werewolf by the moon. The wererat by money. (Loup garou par la lune. - Rat garou par les thunes....
CHARLES DE LEUSSE Cat would be god for elephant, if it ate mouse in front. (Chat serait dieu de l'éléphant, - S'il m...
CHARLES DE LEUSSE “We do not hide the truth in eternity. (On ne cache pas le vrai - Dans l'éternité.)”
CHARLES DE LEUSSE Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free
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