Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
CHARLES DE GAULLEBelgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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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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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
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No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
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Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
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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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I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.
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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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These people really aim very badly.
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It is better to have a bad method than to have none.
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Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
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I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
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France was built with swords. The fleur-de-lis, symbol of national unity, is only the image of a spear with three pikes.
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The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
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