We may go to the moon, but that’ s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.
CHARLES DE GAULLEThe graveyards are full of indispensable men.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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No, I’m not talking about the Russians; I mean the Germans. In spite of everything, to have pushed so far!
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Don’t ask me who’s influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he’s digested, and I’ve been reading all my life.
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The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.
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The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
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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 the tumult of great events, solitude was what I hoped for. Now it is what I love. How is it possible to be contented with anything else when one has come face to face with history?
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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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Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
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Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents.
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I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.
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It’s impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
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The future does not belong to men.
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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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