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 GAULLEDeliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.
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I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
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A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
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Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.
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France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
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In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
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How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
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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 have to answer back.
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It so happens that the world is undergoing a transformation to which no change that has yet occurred can be compared, either in scope or in rapidity.
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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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Betting against gold is the same as betting on governments. He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history.
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Old age is a shipwreck.
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The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
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