I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
CHARLES DE GAULLEGenius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
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Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
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Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
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All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
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Whereas ordinary officers must be content with behaving correctly in front of their men, the great leaders have always carefully stage-managed their effects.
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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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No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
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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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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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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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For all of us Frenchmen, the guiding rule of our epoch is to be faithful to France.
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Character is the virtue of hard times.
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The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
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Hearing Mass is the ceremony I most favor during my travels. Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.
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