I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
CHARLES DE GAULLEFor glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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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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Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
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France cannot be France without greatness.
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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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Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
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The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.
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France has no friends, only interests.
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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
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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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How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
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It’s impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
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All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
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No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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Never relinquish the initiative.
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