A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities.
CHARLES DE GAULLEFor glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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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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Leaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors.
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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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In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
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The Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering.
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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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Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.
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I wouldn’t mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
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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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Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
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In politics it is necessary either to betray one’s country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
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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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I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
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I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that’s the way he shows his passion for equality.
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