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Old age is a shipwreck.
Charles de Gaulle
Age
Old
Shipwreck
You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.
Charles de Gaulle
Soul
Giving
Skin
You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.
Charles de Gaulle
Imagination
Americans
May
Will
You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
Charles de Gaulle
Strategy
Feet
When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
Charles de Gaulle
France
Want
When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.
Charles de Gaulle
Time
Right
Wrong
Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses; they last while they last.
Charles de Gaulle
Girls
Roses
The sword is the axis of the world and its power is absolute.
Charles de Gaulle
Power
World
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
Charles de Gaulle
Love
Patriotism
People
First
Hate
Nationalism
No nation has friends only interests.
Charles de Gaulle
Friends
Nation
Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
Charles de Gaulle
Men
Nothing
Will
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
Time
Habit
Caution
Country
France
Old
Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
Charles de Gaulle
Girls
Roses
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.
Charles de Gaulle
Country
Unity
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
Leader
People
Debate