I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
CHARLES DE GAULLELeaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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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.
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Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.
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All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
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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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You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.
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The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
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Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
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Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
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In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?
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In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
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The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
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Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
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Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
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For all of us Frenchmen, the guiding rule of our epoch is to be faithful to France.
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Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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Never relinquish the initiative.
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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.
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History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.
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France cannot be France without greatness.
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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.
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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 potentialities.
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I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
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