These people really aim very badly.
CHARLES DE GAULLEIt is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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I’m not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
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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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Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
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Don’t think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
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In the tumult of great events, solitude was what I hoped for. Now it is what I love. How is it possible to be contented with anything else when one has come face to face with history?
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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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The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.
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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
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Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
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Never relinquish the initiative.
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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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I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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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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