Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
CHARLES DE GAULLEI feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
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Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
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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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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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Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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France cannot be France without greatness.
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I am not bad, thank you. But don’t worry, one of these days I shall certainly die.
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When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.
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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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Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that’s the way he shows his passion for equality.
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One can unite the French only under the threat of danger. One cannot simply bring together a nation that produces 265 kinds of cheese.
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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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Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
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