These people really aim very badly.
CHARLES DE GAULLEAt the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
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Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
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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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In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?
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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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I am not bad, thank you. But don’t worry, one of these days I shall certainly die.
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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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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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How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?
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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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No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
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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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Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
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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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I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
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