I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
CHARLES DE GAULLEMy dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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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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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
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Betting against gold is the same as betting on governments. He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history.
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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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You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
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Never relinquish the initiative.
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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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No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
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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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My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
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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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Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
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Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
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All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
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