France cannot be France without greatness.
CHARLES DE GAULLEOld age is a shipwreck.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
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I’m not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
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Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
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Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.
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We may go to the moon, but that’ s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.
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At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.
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These people really aim very badly.
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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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In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
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Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
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Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
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Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
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France was built with swords. The fleur-de-lis, symbol of national unity, is only the image of a spear with three pikes.
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