The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
CHARLES DE GAULLEDifficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
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These people really aim very badly.
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We may go to the moon, but that’ s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.
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I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
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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 leader is always alone before bad fates.
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Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
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It’s impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
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Never relinquish the initiative.
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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.
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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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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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Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
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A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
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Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
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At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.
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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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For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
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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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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
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No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
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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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The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.
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