Charles de Gaulle - France Quotes

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The EEC is a horse and carriage: Germany is the horse and France is the coachman.
Of the European Economic Community

Charles de Gaulle
When I want to know what France thinks, I question myself.

Charles de Gaulle
France cannot be France without greatness.

Charles de Gaulle
Since those whose duty it was to hold the sword of France have let it fall, I have picked up its broken point.

Charles de Gaulle
France was built with swords. The fleur-de-lis, symbol of national unity, is only the image of a spear with three pikes.

Charles de Gaulle
Since they whose duty it was to wield the sword of France have let it fall shattered to the ground, I have taken up the broken blade.

Charles de Gaulle
France has lost a battle, but France has not lost the war.

Charles de Gaulle
Faced by the bewilderment of my countrymen, by the disintegration of a government in thrall to the enemy, by the fact that the institutions of my country are incapable, at the moment, of functioning, I General de Gaulle, a French soldier and military leader, realize that I now speak for France.

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Old France, weighed down with history, prostrated by wars and revolutions, endlessly vacillating from greatness to decline, but revived, century after century, by the genius of renewal!

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After a trip to Washington:
If there were anything I could take back to France with me, it would be Mrs Kennedy.

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