You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.
CHARLES DE GAULLENo country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities.
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Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.
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It’s better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.
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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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I wouldn’t mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
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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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For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
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Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
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Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
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Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.
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The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
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Character is the virtue of hard times.
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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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