Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
CHARLES DE GAULLEPatriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?
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Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.
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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
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These people really aim very badly.
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France cannot be France without greatness.
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Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
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The leader is always alone before bad fates.
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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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Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
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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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Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
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It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.
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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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No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
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France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
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