Charles de Gaulle Quotes - Page 5

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• Long live Montreal, Long live Quebec! Long live Free Quebec!

  Charles de Gaulle

  Long, Live Free, Montreal

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• I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Military, Destiny, Instruments

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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.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Wisdom, Love Is, Greatness

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• Today we are crushed by the sheer weight of the mechanized forces hurled against us, but we can still look to the future in which even greater mechanized forces will bring us victory. Therein lies the destiny of the world.

  Charles de Gaulle

  War, Lying, Destiny

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• No policy is worth anything outside of reality.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Reality, Policy

  Televised speech, June 14, 1960.

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• In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Military, War, Risk

  Charles de Gaulle (1964). “The Complete War Memoirs”

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• France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.

  Charles de Gaulle

  War, Battle, France

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• I might have had trouble saving France in 1946 - I didn't have television then.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Television, Saving, Might

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• One does not arrest Voltaire.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Doe

  Quoted in Encounter, June 1975

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• One cannot govern with 'buts'.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Confidence

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• It's impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Normal, Cheese, Impossible

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• It so happens that the world is undergoing a transformation to which no change that has yet occurred can be compared, either in scope or in rapidity.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Progress, World, Transformation

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• Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that's the way he shows his passion for equality

  Charles de Gaulle

  Passion, Equality, Want

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• In the tumult of great events, solitude was what I hoped for. Now it is what I love. How is it possible to be contented with anything else when one has come face to face with history?

  Charles de Gaulle

  Solitude, Events, Faces

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• Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Men, Grasping, Difficulty

  "Mémoires de Guerre". Book by Charles de Gaulle, 1954.

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• I am not bad, thank you. But don't worry, one of these days I shall certainly die.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Worry, These Days, Dies

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• One can unite the French only under the threat of danger. One cannot simply bring together a nation that produces 265 kinds of cheese.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Together, Cheese, Kind

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• 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

  Country, Once Upon A Time, France

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• These people really aim very badly.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Government, People, Aim

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• I myself have become a Gaullist only little by little.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Littles

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• They really are bad shots.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Death, Suicide, Shots

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• As an adolescent I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the interest of life consisted in one day rendering her some signal service and that I would have the occasion to do so.

  Charles de Gaulle

  One Day, France, Trials

  Charles de Gaulle (1964). “The complete war memoirs of Charles de Gaulle”

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• Long live free Quebec!

  Charles de Gaulle

  Long, Live Free, Quebec

  Address to crowd before City Hall, Montreal, Canada, 24 July 1967

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• The cabinet has no propositions to make, but orders to give.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Order, Giving, Cabinets

  "Mémoires de Guerre". Book by Charles de Gaulle, 1954.

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• I'm not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Wisdom, Politics, Revolutionary

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