The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
CHARLES DE GAULLEThe Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.
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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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The leader is always alone before bad fates.
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Whatever happens, the flame of the French resistance must not be extinguished and will not be extinguished. Tomorrow, as today, I will speak on Radio London.
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Only peril can bring the French together. One can’t impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.
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All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
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Never relinquish the initiative.
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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 respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
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France has no friends, only interests.
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A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
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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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For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
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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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