At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.
CHARLES DE GAULLEFor all of us Frenchmen, the guiding rule of our epoch is to be faithful to France.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
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Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.
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Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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For all of us Frenchmen, the guiding rule of our epoch is to be faithful to France.
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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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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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I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
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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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Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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It so happens that the world is undergoing a transformation to which no change that has yet occurred can be compared, either in scope or in rapidity.
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It’s impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
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No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
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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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Old age is a shipwreck.
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