Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
CHARLES DE GAULLEIt 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.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
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Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.
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Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.
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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 evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death.
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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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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
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All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
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I’m not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
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It 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.
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Don’t ask me who’s influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he’s digested, and I’ve been reading all my life.
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