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Only Quotes by Charles de Gaulle
- France has no friends, only interests.
- You'll live. Only the best get killed.
- I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Métro.
- Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
- I myself have become a Gaullist only little by little.
- France was built with swords. The fleur-de-lis, symbol of national unity, is only the image of a spear with three pikes.
- Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
- For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
- I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
- Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
- 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.
- Hearing Mass is the ceremony I most favor during my travels. Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not…
- 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…
- Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.
- No nation has friends only interests.
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