My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
CHARLES DE GAULLEFaced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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I’m not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
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Whatever happens, the flame of the French resistance must not be extinguished and will not be extinguished. Tomorrow, as today, I will speak on Radio London.
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It’s better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.
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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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In politics it is necessary either to betray one’s country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
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Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
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Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
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You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
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How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?
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The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.
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For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
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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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Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
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No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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