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?
CHARLES DE GAULLEWhen I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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One can unite the French only under the threat of danger. One cannot simply bring together a nation that produces 265 kinds of cheese.
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In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
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The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
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No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
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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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He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
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You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.
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Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
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Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
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I’m not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
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There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
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For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
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Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
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You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.
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I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.
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You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
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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.
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These people really aim very badly.
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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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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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