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Former President Of The French Republic Inspirational Quotes (83)

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Long live Montreal, Long live Quebec! Long live Free Quebec!
Charles de Gaulle
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Never relinquish the initiative.
Charles de Gaulle
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No, I'm not talking about the Russians I mean the Germans. In spite of everything, to have pushed so far!
Charles de Gaulle
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It will not be any European statesman who will unite Europe: Europe will be united by the Chinese.
Charles de Gaulle
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We may go to the moon, but that' s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.
Charles de Gaulle
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My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
Charles de Gaulle
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He who laughs last didn't get the joke.
Charles de Gaulle
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The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
Charles de Gaulle
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One does not arrest Voltaire.
Charles de Gaulle
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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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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
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How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
Charles de Gaulle
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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
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One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was one cannot judge life until death.
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France was built with swords. The fleur-de-lis, symbol of national unity, is only the image of a spear with three pikes.
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I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
Charles de Gaulle
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Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
Charles de Gaulle
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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
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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself
Charles de Gaulle
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For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
Charles de Gaulle
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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
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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.
Charles de Gaulle
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It's impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
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At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.
Charles de Gaulle
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