I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
CHARLES DE GAULLEHearing 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.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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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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Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.
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He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
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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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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
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The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
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In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
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Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
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Leaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors.
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When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
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I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.
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Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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France cannot be France without greatness.
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